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Musicophilia is a Chopin mazurka recital of a book, fast, inventive and weirdly beautiful . . . Yet what is most awe-inspiring is his observational empathy.” — The American Scholar
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Mazurka is really an umbrella name for a number of related dances: the fiery Mazurek, the lively Oberek or the slower and more sentimental Kujawiak. All three dances originated from the older Polska, a dance in which a strong accent falls on the second or third beat, accompanied by a tap of the heel. The mazurka spread into Germany
Apr 3, 2008 · Although he takes Greg the Lost Hippie (from An Anthropologist on Mars) to a Grateful Dead concert, the examples of his “strange tales” run more along the lines of Albinoni's “Adagio,” Bach's “Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue,” and Chopin's “Mazurkas.”
Since music is a fundamental aspect of every culture, it embodies every human emotion and can even transport us to an earlier time through our memory. Oliver Sacks, author of Musicophilia, acknowledges the unconscious effects of music as our body tends to join in the rhythmic motions involuntarily. [6]
- Oliver Wolf Sacks
- 2007
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain examines the extreme effects of music on the human brain and how lives can be utterly transformed by the simplest of harmonies.
Musicophilia is a scientific, philosophical, and experiential exploration of humanity’s physiological connections to music. Each chapter discusses a different and unique neurological experience of music and the neurological conditions, both genetic and acquired, that make that experience possible.
There are at least eight mazurkas by Chopin without opus number, usually designated as Op. posth., though at least four of these were published in his lifetime. 2 mazurkas in B ♭ major and G major were composed and published in 1826 in revised versions; the originals were published in 1875. B. 16. D major, B. 31 (1829); revised version, B. 71 ...
