The Neuroscience of Bach's Music: Perception, Action, and Cognition Effects on the Brain is a comprehensive study of Johann Sebastian Bach's music through the lens of neuroscience, examining neuroscience using Bach's music as a tool. This book synthesizes cognitive neuroscience, music theory, and musicology to provide insights into human cognition and perception. It also explores how a neuroscience perspective can improve listening and performing experiences for Bach's music. Written by a physician-neuroscientist recognized for scholarly articles on Bach's music, this book uses specific examples to explore neuroscience across Bach's compositions. The book is structured to discuss the brain's action, perception, and cognition as connected to specific Bach concertos, tones, notes, and performances. Two guest contributors provide insight into exact mathematical, or topologic, and music theoretic aspects of Bach's music with implications for cognitive neuroscience.
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Table of Contents
Section 1: Prelude1. Introduction
2. Background and Overview of Johann Sebastian Bach
3. Basics of the Brain and Perception
Section 2: Playing Bach and the Brain Action
4. Playing Bach's Suites for Solo Cello and Experiencing One's Actions without Perception and Clocking Libet's "Mind Time�
5. Neural Performance, Action Requirements, and Challenges of Playing Bach's Concerto for Two Violins A Study of Synchronization and Perceptual Experience
6. Adding a Third Violin to Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 Challenges in Synchronization and Listener Experience
7. More than Three Perceptual, Action, and Cognitive Challenges for Performers and Listeners
8. Virtuoso of Bach's Composing and Performance Expectations
Section 3: Listening to Bach Perception of Musical Space and Landscape
9. The Neuroscience of "Affekt� - Music, Emotions, and the Brain's Limbic System
10. "Affekt� Related to Tempos and Effects Bach's Composition and Emotional Playing
11. The Algebra of Bach's Transcriptions for Various Instruments and Cognitive Effects
Section 4: Bach and the Exploration of the Tonal System and Beyond Cognition
12. Parallel Fifths and the Cognitive-Perceptual System
13. Enharmonic Notes Across Instruments in Bach's Compositions
14. Modal Traces and the Cognitive-Perceptual System
15. Bach's 12-Tone Row, Cognition, and Musical Perception
16. Present and Future Neuroimaging Studies of Bach
Section 5: Mathematical Bach
17. Topology in Bach I The Brain's Analysis of Bach's Match to a "M�bius Strip� Structure
18. Topology in Bach II The Brain's Ability to Hear Topologic Structures
19. Unbroken and Broken Symmetry in Bach's Compositions
20. The Perceptual Effect of Escher's "Tiling Time�
Section 7: Conclusion
21. Bach and the Brain's Action, Perception, and Cognition Summary and Future Applications and Implications Appendix Using Perceptual and Cognitive Approaches to Finding and Using Bach's Tempos
