Traditionally, music and language have been treated as different psychological faculties. This duality is reflected in older theories about the lateralization o
A presentation of music and language within an integrative, embodied perspective of brain mechanisms for action, emotion, and social coordination. This book exp
In the first comprehensive study of the relationship between music and language from the standpoint of cognitive neuroscience, Aniruddh D. Patel challenges the
Simple songs or airs, in which a male poetic voice either seduces or excoriates a female object, were an influential vocal genre of the French Baroque era. In t
Since the inception of electroacoustic music in 1948, much has been written about technical developments. This book is one of the first to examine aesthetic iss