Book description
Music as a Chariot offers a multidisciplinary perspective on how Theatre can be considered a type of music, and how that understanding can shape our entire approach to the performing arts. Tracing the origins of time and music, along with the evolutionary neuroscience of the human brain, the author explores how humans evolved to produce and experience the music rooted in the auditory expression of theatre, along with the practical implications of this concept - namely the fundamental techniques practitioners use in scoring theatre.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Why This Book?
- Part I The Nature of Time
- Part II Music = Time Manipulated
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Part III Song = Music + Idea
- 6 Campfire Songs: Rhythm and Entrainment
- 7 Music and Language
- 8 Consonance and Dissonance: The Evolution of Line
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Part IV Theatre = Song + Mimesis
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9 Ritual, Arousal, Reward, Ecstasy
- Introduction: From High Mass to Ecstasy
- The Development of Ritual, Shamanism, and Altered States of Consciousness
- The Neuroscience of Arousal and Reward in the Altered States of Consciousness of Shamanism and Theatre
- Cognitive Models for Music in Theatre
- Conclusion: Experiments in Ecstasy
- Ten Questions, Part I
- Things to Share, Part I
- Ten Questions Part II
- Things to Share, Part II
- Notes
- Bibliography
- 10 Music, Mimesis, Memory
- 11 The Bronze Age and the Invention of Writing
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12 Conclusion: Evolution and Greek Theatre
- Introduction: A Case Study
- The Origins of Greek Music: Music = Time Manipulated
- The Development of Greek Song: Song = Music + Idea
- Music as Math Made Audible: The Greeks Revisit Consonance and Dissonance
- The First Autonomous Theatre: Theatre = Song + Mimesis
- Plato and His World
- Aristotle’s Theatre
- Conclusion of the Conclusion
- Eleven Questions, Part I
- Eleven Questions, Part II
- Things to Share
- Notes
- Bibliography
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9 Ritual, Arousal, Reward, Ecstasy
- Index
Product information
- Title: Music as a Chariot
- Author(s):
- Release date: February 2018
- Publisher(s): Routledge
- ISBN: 9781351382076
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