MUSI 3702 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Marvin Minsky, Zoomusicology, Biomusicology
25 May 2016
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Introduction to the physics and psychoacoustics of music. The role and utility of art and music in human behavior and culture. Johann schiller (letter on the aesthetic education of man, 1795), advanced a theory that art is the result of the play impulse ( der spieltrieb ), a free play of the faculties without ulterior motive. for. Schiller, something is an aesthetic object only insofar as it renounces all claim to reality, and it must be enjoyed without asking after its purpose. In the 19th and 20th centuries this teme of l"art pour l"art ( art for art"s sake ) became a rallying cry for the entire modernist movement. Why do we respond emotionally to music, when the messages therein seem to be of no obvious survival value? (john roederer, 1982) Why do we have music, and let it occupy our lives with no apparent reason? (marvin minsky, 1981)
