MUS253
Music and the Embodied Mind
Music
BC
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
GEC This Course Belongs To
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