HOW THE MIND MAKES MUSIC
Book ID/图书代码： 00200008B29288
English Summary/英文概要： This book will offer the first comprehensive, accessible survey of what is known – and what remains unknown – about how music works: why we can comprehend it, why we are moved by it, why we make music and what roles it serves in culture and society.
It will also offer some new ideas about those questions, pointing out where there are current gaps in our enquiries and investigations and suggesting new directions.
It will help the reader understand what is happening when they listen to music: how their brain is decoding the complex sound signal, discerning patterns and regularities and forming interpretations and expectations that create a sense of aesthetic pleasure – or not, as the case may be. In this way, the book will not only enhance the reader’s appreciation of the music they love, but will also encourage him or her to look at all music in a new light and perhaps to begin exploring music that previously seemed opaque or dull or daunting. This will hold true not only for popular and classical Western music but also for music of non-Western cultures.
The book questions some of the popular ideas that musicians and musicologists have advanced about the nature of music: for example, that scales and harmony have their origins in acoustic physics; that emotion in music is all about expectations and their violation; and the numerous tidy but untestable stories told about the evolutionary origins of music. Like Philip Ball’s previous books, this one will celebrate its topic while taking a sceptical, questioning approach to the current theories advanced to explain it. By doing so, this book will challenge some of the fundamental assumptions we hold about music and its role in our cultures.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 这本书第一次提供一个完整的、浅显易懂关于音乐创作的概要，包括我们已知的和未知的：我们能理解它、我们被它打动的原因，我们为什么能创作音乐和它在社会和文化中扮演的角色。
这些问题在书中都可以得到一个全新的回答。并指出我们现在的研究所存在的问题还指明了新方向。
这本书会带读者了解到当我们听音乐的时候我们的大脑发生的变化：我们的大脑是怎样对复杂的音频讯息解码的，辨别音乐风格和韵律，然后有了自己的见解，最后变成一种审美的感官（少数例子可能不会）。这本书不仅仅会提高读者对他们喜爱音乐的欣赏，还让读者用新的方式探索那些先前他们觉得怪异的乐曲。这对古今中外的乐曲都适用。
这本书还对音乐家和音乐学者所说的音乐的本质提出了质疑：比如，音阶和和声在声乐历史中所存在的渊源；音乐中的情绪都是关于期望和不满；还有些实而未证的音乐历史。
如菲利普 保罗先前的书籍一样，作者十分喜欢这个论题，但是对目前存在解释音乐的理论持有相当的怀疑态度。当然，这本书会挑战对我们对于音乐的基理和它在在文化中的扮演的角色。(ZSW)
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