The neuroscience of Bach's music : perception, action, and cognition effects on the brain /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Altschuler, Eric Lewin (Author)
Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London, United Kingdom : Academic Press, an imprint of Elsevier, [2024]
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Table of Contents:
  • Part 1. Prelude. Introduction ; Background and overview of Johann Sebastian Bach ; Basics of the brain and perception ; Case study : A (not so) simple invention by Bach : upside down but very, very rarely backwards
  • Part 2. Playing Bach and the brain : action. Playing Bach's suites for solo cello and experiencing one's actions without perception and clocking Libet's "mind time" ; Neural performance, action requirements, and challenges of playing Bach's Concerto for Two Violins : a study of synchronization and perceptual experience ; Case study : Organ, violin or guitar? ; Incorporating the cello part with two solo violas Bach's in Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 : challenges in sychronization and listener experience ; More than three : perceptual, action, and cognitive challenges for performers and listeners ; Case study : A brainy Bach Encore for Handel ; Case study : What is a fugue? ; Virtuoso of Bach's composing and performance expectations
  • Part 3. Listening to Bach : perception of musical space and landscape. An introduction to the neuroscience of "affekt" : music, emotions, and the brain's limbic system ; "Affekt" related to tempos and effects : Bach's composition and emotional playing ; Case study : The affekt of effects in a Bach Cantata ; The algebra and neuroscience of Bach's transcriptions for various instruments and cognitive effects ; Case studies : (Can you hear) What's in a name?
  • Part 4. Bach and the exploration of the tonal system and beyond : cognition. Parallel fifths and the cognitive-perceptual system ; Sequential enharmonic notes across instruments in Bach's compositions ; Case study : "Wrong notes" in Bach ; Bach's 12-tone row, cognition, and musical perception ; Case study : A whole tone scale in Bach ; Modal traces and the cognitive-perceptual system ; Present and future neuroimaging studies of Bach
  • Part 5. Mathematical Bach. Topology in Bach I : The brain's analysis of Bach's match to a "Möbius strip" structure ; Topology in Bach II : A musical torus and the brain's ability to hear topological structures ; Unbroken and broken symmetry in Bach's compositions
  • Part 6. Conclusion. Bach and the brain : action, perception, and cognition : summary, conclusion, fresh beginnings and future studies.