9780199990825-0199990824-On Repeat: How Music Plays the Mind

On Repeat: How Music Plays the Mind

ISBN-13: 9780199990825
ISBN-10: 0199990824
Edition: 1
Author: Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis
Publication date: 2013
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover 224 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780199990825
ISBN-10: 0199990824
Edition: 1
Author: Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis
Publication date: 2013
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover 224 pages

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On Repeat: How Music Plays the Mind (ISBN-13: 9780199990825 and ISBN-10: 0199990824), written by authors Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis, was published by Oxford University Press in 2013. With an overall rating of 4.2 stars, it's a notable title among other Musical Genres (Computer Science, Biology, Biological Sciences, Music) books. You can easily purchase or rent On Repeat: How Music Plays the Mind (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Musical Genres books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $21.3.

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Winner of the Wallace Berry Award, Society for Music Theory
Winner of the Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Award, ASCAP

What is it about the music you love that makes you want to hear it again?

Why do we crave a "hook" that returns, again and again, within the same piece?

And how does a song end up getting stuck in your head?

Whether it's a motif repeated throughout a composition, a sample looped under an electronic dance beat, a passage replayed incessantly by a musician in a practice room-or an "earworm" burrowing through your mind like a broken record-repetition is nearly as integral to music as the notes themselves. Its centrality has been acknowledged by everyone from evolutionary biologist W. Tecumseh Fitch, who has called it a "design feature" of music, to the composer Arnold Schoenberg who admitted that "intelligibility in music seems to be impossible without repetition." And yet, stunningly little is actually understood about repetition and its role in music.

On Repeat offers the first in-depth inquiry into music's repetitive nature, focusing not on a particular style, or body of work, but on repertoire from across time periods and cultures. Author Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis draws on a diverse array of fields including music theory, psycholinguistics, neuroscience, and cognitive psychology, to look head-on at the underlying perceptual mechanisms associated with repetition. Her work sheds light on a range of issues from repetition's use as a compositional tool to its role in characterizing our behavior as listeners, and then moves beyond music to consider related implications for repetition in language, learning, and communication.

Written in engaging prose, and enlivening otherwise complex concepts for the specialist and non-specialist alike, On Repeat will captivate scholars and students across numerous disciplines from music theory and history, to psychology and neuroscience-and anyone fascinated by the puzzle of repetition in music.
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