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Time and the Warm Body: A Musical Perspective on the Construction of Time

Time and the Warm Body: A Musical Perspective on the Construction of Time

Burrows, David

Hardcover

Music Theory

ISBN10: 9004158707
ISBN13: 9789004158702
Publisher: Brill
Published: Jul 20 2007
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.98
Height: 0.62 Width: 6.47 Depth: 9.90
Language: English
This study deals with time and with music, and the link between the two is the suggestion that music is a modeling of the way we construct time. Time--the now, duration, succession and order of succession; the past, the future--is seen as a resource for managing systemic disequilibrium and as the evolutionary elaboration of the now. As organic dynamical systems humans maintain themselves by means of self-regulatory actions, nows, and these nows are proposed as feeding off a pre-temporal, interindividually accessed energy in nature, an ongoing cosmic proto-present. Speech is a way out of sensory immediacy and a way into a complex shared world where coordination and planning take place away from the distractions of the present as given by the senses. Music is presented as one of a group of behaviors comprising the arts and games that evolved in parallel with language to compensate for its abstractness. Language tends to the complexly abstract and music favors the complex, sensorially concrete: like speech, music operates on a synthetic plane, but provides synthetic occasions for sensory immediacy at a level of complexity to match that of language.

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