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- Draws on varied authors and disciplines, covering philosophy, musicology, literary studies, linguistics, and psychology
- Contributes to a broader as well as a deeper understanding of the relationship between music and human cognition
- Integrates linguistic and mathematical aspects of music and musical communication to understand human thinking
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Sound (PASTS)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book is about the human mental capacities that are mostly veiled in the use of language yet can be revealed through music activities. In speech, just one word is articulated at the time, whereas in music different pitches sound simultaneously. This conflict demonstrates that rationality must be regarded as relative, as rationality in music may create chaos in speech. Moreover, investigating the role of sound in synesthesia reveals that its aesthetic combinations are related to the human capacity to enjoy different types of harmonies in music. Drawing on new research regarding synesthesia as a more fundamental basis for human cognition, this book brings this a step further by introducing synesthesia as a general metacognitive process, hinting at the aesthetical origin of fundamental logical operations. Bringing together a number of cultural perspectives on music, language, and mathematics, this volume expertly illustrates that music reveals a fundamental system that deeply combines the sensorial and the intellectual human capacities.
Authors and Affiliations
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Norwegian University of Science and Tech, Trondheim, Norway
Sven Hroar Klempe
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sound and Reason
Book Subtitle: Synesthesia as Metacognition
Authors: Sven Hroar Klempe
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Sound
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-2340-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-19-2339-5Published: 11 June 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-19-2342-5Published: 11 June 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-981-19-2340-1Published: 10 June 2022
Series ISSN: 2633-5875
Series E-ISSN: 2633-5883
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 357
Number of Illustrations: 24 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociology of Culture, Sociology, general, Philosophy of Music, Music