Play It Again, Sam - Repetition in the Arts

Why we enjoy works of art, and how repetition plays a central part in the pleasure we receive. Leonard Bernstein, in his famous The author also looks at repetition in paintings like The book ends with a cognitive conjecture on why repetition <

List of contents

Introduction
1 Same/Except
2 Rhyme in Poetry
3 Rhyme in Music
4 Same/Except and the Ubiquitous Rule of Three
5 Music’s Rule of Three
6 Is Music Wallpaper?
7 Meter and Repetition
8 Repetition and Framing
9 Repetition and Formulas
10 Repetition and Galant
11 Repetition and Jazz
12 Repetition and Parallelism
13 Repetition in Painting and Photographs
14 - P4 = Parallelism, Priming, Prediction, and Pleasure
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
Index

About the author

Samuel Jay Keyser

Product details

• Authors: Samuel Jay Keyser, Samuel Jay Keyser
• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.05.2025
• EAN: 9780262552325
• ISBN: 978-0-262-55232-5
• No. of pages: 308
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology; The arts: general issues, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, ART / Criticism & Theory, Sociolinguistics, Philosophy: aesthetics, The arts: general topics