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Informationen zum Autor Richard K. Thomas is Professor of Visual and Performing Arts at Purdue University with over 100 credits as a composer, sound designer, author, playmaker and educator. He is a Fellow of USITT, and winner of the 2018 Distinguished Achievement Award in Sound Design and Technology. Klappentext Music as a Chariot offers a multidisciplinary perspective on how Theatre can be considered a type of music, and how that understanding can shape our entire approach to the performing arts. Tracing the origins of time and music, along with the evolutionary neuroscience of the human brain, the author explores how humans evolved to produce and experience the music rooted in the auditory expression of theatre, along with the practical implications of this concept - namely the fundamental techniques practitioners use in scoring theatre. Zusammenfassung Music as a Chariot offers a multidisciplinary perspective whose primary proposition is that theatre is a type of music. Understanding how music enables the theatre experience helps to shape our entire approach to the performing arts. Beginning with a discussion on the origin and nature of time, the author takes us on an evolutionary journey to discover how music, language and mimesis co-evolved, eventually coming together to produce the complex way we experience theatre. The book integrates the evolutionary neuroscience of the human brain into this journey, offering practical implications and applications for the auditory expression of this concept—namely the fundamental techniques artists use to create sound scores for theatre. With contributions from directors, playwrights, actors and designers, Music as a Chariot explores the use of music to carry ideas into the human soul—a concept that extends beyond the theatrical to include film, video gaming, dance, or anywhere art is manipulated in time. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of Contents Chapter 1: Introduction: Why this Book? Introduction: An Ear Opening Experience Old School Aesthetics When Sound Gets Divorced from Music Who Should Read this Book Overview of the Book Bibliography Ten Questions Things to Share Notes Part I: The Nature of Time Chapter 2: Let There Be a Big Bang Introduction: If a Tree Falls in the Universe... The Nature of Light and Sound The Evolution of Hearing and Speaking The Evolution of the Brain Leads to the Ability to Express Emotions Eyes and Ears, Space and Time Ten Questions Things to Share Notes Bibliography Chapter 3: The Great Mystery of Time Introduction: Babbling in Babelsberg The Mammalian Invasion We Are Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made of... The Relativity of Time Ten Questions Things to Share Notes Bibliography Part II: Music = Time Manipulated Chapter 4: What Is Music? Introduction: What's in a Name? Music Is Organized Sound Narrowing Our Definition of Music Music Is Visual as Well as Audible The Elements of Design Energy Characteristics Temporal Characteristics Spatial Characteristics Complex Elements that Combine Energy in Time and Space The Importance of These Elements of Music A Proposed Definition of Music Ten Questions Things to Share Notes Bibliography Chapter 5: Primate Numbers Introduction: Who's on First? Music, Language and Mimesis: The Really Early Years Bipedal Primates Ten Questions Things to Share Notes Bibliography Part III: Song = Music + Idea Chapter 6: Campfire Songs (Rhythm and Entrainment) Introduction: Welcome Homo One Giant Leap for Mankind Early Homo Homo Erectus Running, Tempo, Pul...
