Time and the warm body : a musical perspective on the construction of time /
Burrows, David L.
Time and the warm body : a musical perspective on the construction of time / by David Burrows. - 1 online resource. - Supplements to The study of time, v. 2 1873-7463 ; . - Brill eBook titles 2007 . - Supplements to the Study of Time 2. Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2007, ISBN: 9789004223127. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [133]-139) and index.
Preliminary material / I. The embodied now / II. From now to time / III. Music and the warm body / Conclusion / Notes / Bibliography / Index / Burrows -- Burrows -- Burrows -- Burrows -- Burrows -- Burrows -- Burrows -- Burrows.
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This study deals with time and with music, and the link between the two is the suggestion that music is a modeling of the way we construct time. Time—the now, duration, succession and order of succession; the past, the future—is seen as a resource for managing systemic disequilibrium and as the evolutionary elaboration of the now. As organic dynamical systems humans maintain themselves by means of self-regulatory actions, nows, and these nows are proposed as feeding off a pre-temporal, interindividually accessed energy in nature, an ongoing cosmic proto-present. Speech is a way out of sensory immediacy and a way into a complex shared world where coordination and planning take place away from the distractions of the present as given by the senses. Music is presented as one of a group of behaviors comprising the arts and games that evolved in parallel with language to compensate for its abstractness. Language tends to the complexly abstract and music favors the complex, sensorially concrete: like speech, music operates on a synthetic plane, but provides synthetic occasions for sensory immediacy at a level of complexity to match that of language.
9789047421085
10.1163/ej.9789004158702.i-144 DOI
2007023894
B0710083 bccb
Music--Philosophy and aesthetics.
Musical perception.
Time in music.
Time perception.
Time--Philosophy.
ML3800 / .B96 2007
781.2/2
Time and the warm body : a musical perspective on the construction of time / by David Burrows. - 1 online resource. - Supplements to The study of time, v. 2 1873-7463 ; . - Brill eBook titles 2007 . - Supplements to the Study of Time 2. Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2007, ISBN: 9789004223127. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [133]-139) and index.
Preliminary material / I. The embodied now / II. From now to time / III. Music and the warm body / Conclusion / Notes / Bibliography / Index / Burrows -- Burrows -- Burrows -- Burrows -- Burrows -- Burrows -- Burrows -- Burrows.
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
This study deals with time and with music, and the link between the two is the suggestion that music is a modeling of the way we construct time. Time—the now, duration, succession and order of succession; the past, the future—is seen as a resource for managing systemic disequilibrium and as the evolutionary elaboration of the now. As organic dynamical systems humans maintain themselves by means of self-regulatory actions, nows, and these nows are proposed as feeding off a pre-temporal, interindividually accessed energy in nature, an ongoing cosmic proto-present. Speech is a way out of sensory immediacy and a way into a complex shared world where coordination and planning take place away from the distractions of the present as given by the senses. Music is presented as one of a group of behaviors comprising the arts and games that evolved in parallel with language to compensate for its abstractness. Language tends to the complexly abstract and music favors the complex, sensorially concrete: like speech, music operates on a synthetic plane, but provides synthetic occasions for sensory immediacy at a level of complexity to match that of language.
9789047421085
10.1163/ej.9789004158702.i-144 DOI
2007023894
B0710083 bccb
Music--Philosophy and aesthetics.
Musical perception.
Time in music.
Time perception.
Time--Philosophy.
ML3800 / .B96 2007
781.2/2