Beethoven's Anvil

Beethoven's Anvil

2003 腦內交響曲：從認知科學與文化探討音樂的創造及聆賞 Beethoven’s anvil : music in mind and culture 作者：威廉．班宗/著 原文作者：William Benzon 譯者：趙三賢 出版社：商周出版 出版日期：2003年07月01日

作者簡介: 威廉．班宗（William L. Benzon）博士：認知科學家，《社會與演化系統期刊》（Journal of Social and Evolutionary Systems）之編輯委員，是音樂團體「歐亞非聯盟」（Afro-Eurasian Connection）創始人之一。

2002 Beethoven's Anvil: Music In Mind And Culture by William Benzon (Paperback - Oct 2002) Basic Books

Benzon, a horn player, is intensely interested in how music brings people together and gives us a fascinating, at times profound, and speculative book on it. Believing that speculation is necessary for intellectual and scientific progress, he writes for the future while proposing concepts to be tested in the present. He doesn't claim his ideas are true, only that they should be considered and tested. The book begins with stories of musical experience and proceeds to show how music can bring groups, not just pairs, together by means of their coordinated neurological systems; how music affects different sections of the brain; and how music has played a part in developing cultures throughout history. Although largely oriented to Africa and Europe, the book provides examples from the rest of the world, too; and Benzon often draws on personal experience to demonstrate how emotion and physiology combine in the music-making act. At times the text is heavy going, but Benzon's wide-ranging mind and striking analogies hold one's attention. William Beatty

Benzon, W. L. (2002). Colorless Green Homunculi. Human Nature Review. 2: 454-462.

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