Research Catalog

Title

The second sense : language, music, and hearing / Robin Maconie.

Author

Maconie, Robin.

Publication

Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2002.

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Description

xi, 372 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

• "In a visual culture, hearing is the second sense, and music is the art of hearing. Kandinsky believed that music transcends painting and visual representation because it has the power to act directly and invisibly on the human spirit. Because it is the only art to deal unequivocally with the real world of sound and its attendant perceptions of time, motion, and human mortality, music remains a powerful and often controversial influence on human behavior.".
• "The Second Sense draws on over 100 examples of recorded musical sources from throat singing to Beethoven, and from traditional Japan to Boulez, including a great many popular classics.
• On the basis that "Everything you hear is true: true of yourself, true of the music, and true of the relationship between what you hear and how you hear it," the author teases out the signs, symbols, and patterns of thought that arise from the way people hear, the sounds people make, and the instruments and environments that are designed and constructed to enhance the listening experience."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Music appreciation
• Music > Philosophy and aesthetics
• Music > Acoustics and physics

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Includes discography.

Contents

1. Sound and vision -- 2. Processing sound -- 3. Instruments -- 4. Signatures -- 5. Reflections -- 6. Directions -- 7. Space -- 8. Visible sound -- 9. In camera -- 10. Team players -- 11. Resonance -- 12. Leadership -- 13. Time and motion -- 14. Noise -- 15. Mechanical music -- 16. Mouth music -- 17. Relativity -- 18. Inspiration -- 19. Memory -- 20. Outer space.

ISBN

0810842424 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2002017572

OCLC

• ocm48753302
• SCSB-9093907

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries