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Peter Pesic

Polyphonic Minds

Music of the Hemispheres

Peter Pesic

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English
MIT Press
25 October 2022
Theory of music & musicology; History of science
"An exploration of polyphony and the perspective it offers on our own polyphonic brains.

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. In Polyphonic Minds, Peter Pesic examines the history and significance of ""polyphonicity""-of ""many-voicedness""-in human experience. 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? How does a single mind experience those things as a unity (a motet, a fugue) rather than an incoherent jumble? Pesic argues that polyphony raises fundamental issues for philosophy, theology, literature, psychology, and neuroscience-all searching for the apparent unity of consciousness in the midst of multiple simultaneous experiences.

After tracing the development of polyphony in Western music from ninth-century church music through the experimental compositions of Glenn Gould and John Cage, Pesic considers the analogous activity within the brain, the polyphonic ""music of the hemispheres"" that shapes brain states from sleep to awakening. He discusses how neuroscientists draw on concepts from polyphony to describe the ""neural orchestra"" of the brain. Pesic's story begins with ancient conceptions of God's mind and ends with the polyphonic personhood of the human brain and body. An enhanced e-book edition allows the sound examples to be played by a touch."
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Imprint:   MIT Press
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 229mm,  Width: 203mm, 
Weight:   369g
ISBN:   9780262543897
ISBN 10:   0262543893
Pages:   344
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Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
"Prelude 1 I Polyphony Emergent 13 1 Global Contexts and Ancient Origins 15 2 Dispassion and Deification 31 3 The Music of the Blessed 47 4 Oresme and the ""New Song"" 67 5 Polyphonic Controversies 85 II Polyphony Triumphant 99 6 E pluribus unum 101 7 Polyphony and Power 119 8 Controlling Dissonance 131 9 Contrapuntal Science and Art 149 10 In Bach's Hands 163 III Polyphonic Horizons 181 11 Polyphony Extended 183 12 Contrapuntal Radio and Polyphonic Fields 209 IV Polyphonic Brains 227 13 Polyphonic Selves 229 14 Tuning the Brain 245 15 Music of the Hemispheres 259 Postlude 273 Notes 277 References 299 Illustration Credits 317 Acknowledgments 319 Index 321"

Peter Pesic, writer, pianist, and scholar, is Director of the Science Institute and Musician-in-Residence at St. John's College, Santa Fe. He is the author of Abel's Proof- An Essay on the Sources and Meaning of Mathematical Unsolvability; Seeing Double- Shared Identities in Physics, Philosophy, and Literature; Sky in a Bottle; and Music and the Making of Modern Science, all published by the MIT Press.

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