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Title Uncommon measure : a journey through music, performance, and the science of time / Natalie Hodges.
Author Hodges, Natalie, author.
Publication Info. New York : Bellevue Literary Press, 2022.
©2022
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 North Orange  781.43 HOD    Check Shelves
 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Third Floor  781.43 HOD    Check Shelves
 Windermere  781.43 HOD    Check Shelves
Edition First edition.
Description 220 pages ; 21 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-220).
Contents Prelude -- Untrainment -- A Sixth Sense : Notes on Improvisation -- Symmetry Breaking -- Chaconne -- The Still Point of the Turning World -- Coda. Memory is a Hologram.
Summary "How does time shape consciousness, and consciousness, time? Do we live in time, or does time live in us? And how does music, with its patterns of rhythm and harmony, inform our experience of time? Uncommon Measure: Reflections on Music, Performance, and the Science of Time explores these questions from the perspective of a young Korean American who dedicated herself to perfecting her art until, crippled by performance anxiety, she was forced to give up her dreams of becoming a career solo violinist. Anchoring her narrative in illuminating research in neuroscience and theories of quantum physics, Hodges traces her own passage through model-minority expectations and examines her immigrant mother's encounters with racism to come to terms with the meaning of a life in music. The lessons she learns enable her to move from anxiety toward acceptance, from rote re-creation toward the freedom of improvisation"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Music -- Performance -- Psychological aspects.
Time -- Psychological aspects.
Time in music.
Improvisation (Music) -- Psychological aspects.
Hodges, Natalie.
Musicians -- Psychology.
Genre Personal Narrative.
Personal narratives.
ISBN 9781942658979 paperback : $17.99
1942658974 paperback