Polyphonic Minds: Music of the Hemispheres Pesic Peter
Polyphonic Minds: Music of the Hemispheres Pesic Peter An exploration of polyphony and the perspective it offers on our own polyphonic brains.Polyphony--the interweaving of simultaneous sounds--is a…
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Polyphonic Minds: Music of the Hemispheres Pesic Peter
An exploration of polyphony and the perspective it offers on our own polyphonic brains.Polyphony--the interweaving of simultaneous sounds--is a crucial aspect of music that has deep implications for how we understand the mind. Pesic presents the emergence of Western polyphony, its flowering, its horizons, and the perspective it offers on our own polyphonic brains.When we listen to polyphonic music, how is it that we can hear several different things at once? In Polyphonic Minds, Peter Pesic examines the history and significance of "polyphonicity"--of "many-voicedness"--in human experience.
Pesic argues that polyphony raises fundamental issues for philosophy, theology, literature, psychology, and neuroscience--all searching for the apparent unity of How does a single mind experience those things as a unity (a motet, a fugue) rather than an incoherent jumble?