Music as a Chariot: The Evolutionary Origins of Theatre in Time, Sound, and Music

Contents

• 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, Pulse, Tactus and Entrainment
• Tempo, Pacing, Tactus, Entrainment and Theatre Composition
• When Music Meets Mimesis
• Conclusion
• Ten Questions
• Things to Share
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Chapter 7: Music and Language
• Introduction: "All Theatre Starts with a Script"
• Brain Gains
• Fantastic Voyage
• Conclusion: Song = Music + Idea
• Ten Questions
• Things to Share
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Chapter 8: Consonance and Dissonance (The Evolution of Line)
• Introduction: The Roots of Who We Become
• The Evolution of Line
• Consonance and Dissonance
• What is Consonance and Dissonance?
• Subcortical Consonance and Dissonance Perception
• Cortical Consonance and Dissonance Perception
• Consonance and Dissonance in Theatre
• Line/Melody
• Harmony
• Conclusion: Consonance and Dissonance and Time
• Ten Questions
• Things to Share
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Part IV: Theatre = Song + Mimesis
• Chapter 9: Ritual, Arousal, Reward, Ecstasy
• Introduction: From High Mass to Ecstasy
• The Development of Ritual, Shamanism, and (Altered States of Consciousness)
• The Neuroscience of Arousal and Reward in the Altered States of Consciousness of Shamanism and Theatre
• Introduction: Dreams, Altered States of Consciousness and Theatre
• The Basic Neuroscience of Arousal
• The Effect of Music on Physiological Systems
• The Effect of Music on Psychological Systems
• Cognitive Models for Music in Theatre
• Robert Thayer's Model of Psychological Moods
• Berlyne's Theory of Arousal in Aesthetics and Psychobiology
• Conclusion: Experiments in Ecstasy
• Ten Questions
• Things to Share
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Chapter 10: Music, Mimesis, Memory
• Introduction: Traveling Backwards in Time
• The New Stone Age
• Memory
• Introduction
• Sensory Memory
• Long Auditory Store/Short Term Memory/Working Memory
• Long-Term Memory
• Creating and Retrieving Long-Term Memories
• Implicit Memory
• Explicit Episodic Memory
• Involuntary Explicit Episodic Memory
• Autobiographical Memory
• Conclusion: The Origins of Theatre and the Problems of the Oral Tradition
• Ten Questions
• Things to Share
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Chapter 11: The Bronze Age and the Invention of Writing
• Introduction: Theatre Becomes Drama
• The Bronze Age
• The Emergence of Written Language
• The Transition from Oral Tradition to Recorded History
• Conclusion: Lost in Translation?
• Ten Questions
• Things to Share
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Chapter 12: Conclusion: Evolution and Greek Theatre
• Introduction: A Case Study
• The Origins of Greek Music: Music = Time Manipulated
• The Development of Greek Song: Song = Music + Idea
• Music as Math Made Audible: The Greeks Revisit Consonance and Dissonance
• The First Autocratic Theatre: Theatre = Song + Mimesis
• Plato and His World
• Aristotle's Theatre
• Conclusion of the Conclusion
• Eleven Questions, Part I
• Eleven Questions, Part II
• Things to Share
• Notes
• Bibliography