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The Nature of Music

Professor Milton Mermikides · Gresham College

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About

How is music able to convey and trigger such range and depth of emotion? Why does it elicit joy, sorrow, consolation and the chills? Employing research and theoretical models from neuroscience, psychology and musicology, we examine the extraordinary ways that primal and conditioned listening combine to such complex emotive effect. Examples from pop, jazz, rock, film, global, traditional and classical forms are presented under the light of nostalgia, visual imagery, emotional contagion, rhythmic entrainment, aesthetics, expectation and the extra-musical.

Lectures

  1. Why Music Moves Us 2023-09-14 · YouTube
  2. The Poetry of Prediction: Musical Time, Rhythm and Groove 2023-11-09 · YouTube
  3. The Art and Science of Tuning 2024-01-18 · YouTube
  4. The Colour Spectrum of Scales and Modes 2024-02-22 · YouTube
  5. Musical Consonance and Dissonance: The Good, Bad and Beautifully Ugly 2024-04-25 · YouTube
  6. Is Music Infinite? 2024-05-16 · YouTube

Credits and licence

Institution
Gresham College
Speaker
Professor Milton Mermikides
Year
2023
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Music
Source
Gresham College
Licence
Educational use (Gresham College's terms), as Gresham College states it. Gresham College's terms
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