Author: Soo-yeon ChoiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
How Time Thickens
Author: Soo-yeon ChoiMaking Musical Time
Author: Guerino MazzolaPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030856291
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
This book is a comprehensive examination of the conception, perception, performance, and composition of time in music across time and culture. It surveys the literature of time in mathematics, philosophy, psychology, music theory, and somatic studies (medicine and disability studies) and looks ahead through original research in performance, composition, psychology, and education. It is the first monograph solely devoted to the theory of construction of musical time since Kramer in 1988, with new insights, mathematical precision, and an expansive global and historical context. The mathematical methods applied for the construction of musical time are totally new. They relate to category theory (projective limits) and the mathematical theory of gestures. These methods and results extend the music theory of time but also apply to the applied performative understanding of making music. In addition, it is the very first approach to a constructive theory of time, deduced from the recent theory of musical gestures and their categories. Making Musical Time is intended for a wide audience of scholars with interest in music. These include mathematicians, music theorists, (ethno)musicologists, music psychologists / educators / therapists, music performers, philosophers of music, audiologists, and acousticians.
The Living Age
Author: Chambers's Encyclopædia
Author: Ephraim ChambersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 852
Book Description
The Causes and Prevention of Corrosion
Author: Alan Ashton PollittPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Corrosion and anti-corrosives
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
A Touch of the Poet
Author: Eugene O'NeillPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300100792
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Offers two plays by the renowned American dramatist including his last full-length play concerning the aspirations, pride, and illusions of a former Irish major who settles in nineteenth-century Massachusetts.
Alone in the World?
Author: Van HuyssteenPublisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 9780802832467
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
In Alone in the World? -- first given as the 2004 Gifford Lectures at the University of Edinburgh -- J. Wentzel van Huyssteen develops the interdisciplinary dialogue that he set out in The Shaping of Rationality (1999), applying this methodology to the uncharted waters between theological anthropology and paleoanthropology. Among other things, van Huyssteen argues that scientific notions of human uniqueness help us to ground theological notions of human distinctiveness in flesh-and-blood, embodied experiences and protect us from overly complex theological abstractions regarding the "image of God." Focusing on the interdisciplinary problem of human origins and distinctiveness, van Huyssteen accesses the origins of the embodied human mind through the spectacular prehistoric cave paintings of western Europe, fifteen of which are reproduced in color in this volume. Boldly connecting the widely separated fields of Christian theology and paleoanthropology through careful interdisciplinary reflection, Alone in the World? will encourage sustained investigation into the question of human uniqueness.
The Home Encyclopædia
Author: Journal of Comparative Pathology and Therapeutics
Author: Shamans Through Time
Author: Jeremy NarbyPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440649774
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
A survey of five centuries of writings on the world's great shamans-the tricksters, sorcerers, conjurers, and healers who have fascinated observers for centuries. This collection of essays traces Western civilization's struggle to interpret and understand the ancient knowledge of cultures that revere magic men and women-individuals with the power to summon spirits. As written by priests, explorers, adventurers, natural historians, and anthropologists, the pieces express the wonder of strangers in new worlds. Who were these extraordinary magic-makers who imitated the sounds of animals in the night, or drank tobacco juice through funnels, or wore collars filled with stinging ants? Shamans Through Time is a rare chronicle of changing attitudes toward that which is strange and unfamiliar. With essays by such acclaimed thinkers as Claude Lévi-Strauss, Black Elk, Carlos Castaneda, and Frank Boas, it provides an awesome glimpse into the incredible shamanic practices of cultures around the world.