Film, Video Homo-Musicus: How Music Began
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Title
- Homo-Musicus: How Music Began
Summary
- Ellen Dissayanake discusses "Homo Musicus: How Music Began." The universally observed interaction between mothers and infants, commonly and even dismissively called "baby talk," is composed of proto-aesthetic, temporally-organized elements that Dissayanake suggests are the origin of human music. Because infants are born ready to engage in these encounters and to prefer their visual, vocal and gestural components to any other sight or sound, one could claim that humans are innately prepared to be musical. The Music and the Brain Series Lecture cycle of lectures and special presentations that highlight an explosion of new research in the rapidly expanding field of "neuromusic." Programming is sponsored by the Library's Music Division and its Science, Technology and Business Division, in cooperation with the Dana Foundation,
Names
- Library of Congress
- Library of Congress. Music Division, sponsoring body
- Library of Congress. Science, Technology, and Business Division, sponsoring body
Created / Published
- Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2008-10-17.
Headings
- - Culture, Performing Arts
- - Education
- - Science, Technology
- - Performing Arts, Music
- - Technology, Industry
Notes
- - Classification: Education.
- - Classification: Medicine.
- - Classification: Music and Books on Music.
- - Classification: Science.
- - Ellen Dissayanake.
- - Recorded on 2008-10-17.
- - Researchers.
Medium
- 1 online resource
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 2021687530
Online Format
- video
- image