Author(s): Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publish date: 2013-12-09
ISBN-10: 0199990824
ISBN-13: 9780199990825
Language: English
Description: Winner of the Wallace Berry Award, Society for Music
Theory
What is it about the music you love that makes you want to hear it
again?
Why do we crave a "hook" that returns, again and again, within the
same piece?
And how does a song end up getting stuck in your head?
Whether it's a motif repeated throughout a composition, a sample
looped under an electronic dance beat, a passage replayed
incessantly by a musician in a practice room-or an "earworm"
burrowing through your mind like a broken record-repetition is
nearly as integral to music as the notes themselves. Its centrality
has been acknowledged by everyone from evolutionary biologist W…. more…
Theory
What is it about the music you love that makes you want to hear it
again?
Why do we crave a "hook" that returns, again and again, within the
same piece?
And how does a song end up getting stuck in your head?
Whether it's a motif repeated throughout a composition, a sample
looped under an electronic dance beat, a passage replayed
incessantly by a musician in a practice room-or an "earworm"
burrowing through your mind like a broken record-repetition is
nearly as integral to music as the notes themselves. Its centrality
has been acknowledged by everyone from evolutionary biologist W…. more…
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