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MUS253

Music and the Embodied Mind

Subject code

MUS

Course Number

253

Department(s)

Instructor(s)

G. Fatone

Course Long Title

Music and the Embodied Mind

Cross Listed Courses

Description

An exploration of the nature of musical experience in cognitive, neuroscientific, and bodily terms. Does music belong to an altered state of consciousness or is it a function of our ordinary state of consciousness and bodily? Why does music compel us to move? Are the emotions that we experience through music the same as those that spring from our personal experiences? Is music essentially an interior experience, and if so, how does it connect us so powerfully to others? What are the relationships between music and language in the brain? How can music and speech become one in song? These questions, long fascinating to philosophers, are now being considered through the scientific study of the brain and mind. Recommended background: previous study of music, neuroscience, or psychology.

Modes of Inquiry

Analysis and Critique [AC]

Writing Credit

No writing credit

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