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Author Margulis, Elizabeth Hellmuth

Title On repeat : how music plays the mind / Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis
Published Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2014]
©2014

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Description xi, 204 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm
Contents The puzzle of musical repetition -- From acoustic to perceived repetition -- Attention, temporality, and music that repeats Itself -- Earworms, technology, and the verbatim -- Relistenings -- In performance -- Overt participation, implied participation -- Repetition, music, and mind
Summary 'On Repeat' offers an in-depth inquiry into music's repetitive nature. Drawing on a diverse array of fields, it sheds light on a range of issues from repetition's use as a compositional tool to its role in characterizing our behaviour as listeners, and considers related implications for repetition in language learning, and communication
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Repetition in music.
Music -- Psychological aspects.
Musical perception.
Cognition.
Cognition
Music -- psychology
cognition.
Cognition
Music -- Psychological aspects
Musical perception
Repetition in music
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2013025089
ISBN 9780199990825
0199990824