Dialogues
between Music and Nature Science
音樂與自然科學的對話
Instructor：Chen-gia Tsai
Semester：Fall 2007, Fall 2006, Spring
2006
Credit：3
Schedule
|
Week |
Content |
Readings |
|
1 |
Introduction to
biomusicology and musical acoustics |
– |
|
2 |
Evolutionary biology
and the origins of arts |
A: Ch. 1, 9 |
|
3 |
Acoustic
communication of animals (1): |
B: Ch. 1, 2 |
|
4 |
Acoustic
communication of animals (2): |
B: Ch. 6 |
|
5 |
Music and sign |
B: Ch. 4 |
|
6 |
Musical brain |
C: Ch. 1 |
|
7 |
Music and the limbic system |
C: Ch. 3 |
|
8 |
When the feeling’s
gone: musical emotion |
C: Ch. 4 |
|
9 |
Midterm exam |
– |
|
10 |
Dance & social
bonding |
– |
|
11 |
Mirror neurons |
D |
|
12 |
Jazz and Tourette syndrome: The Tic Code |
E: Ch. 10, 14 |
|
13 |
Diseases in musicians |
E: Ch. 11, 22 |
|
14 |
Vibration & sound |
– |
|
15 |
Spectrum &
harmonics |
– |
|
16 |
Students’ presentation |
– |
|
17 |
Students’ presentation |
– |
|
18 |
Final exam |
– |
Ref. Book
(A)
L. Diamond. The Third Chimpanzee: The
Evolution and Future of the Human Animal. New York : HarperCollins
Publishers, 1992.
(B) T. Friend. Animal talk: Breaking the Codes of Animal Language. New York: Free Press,
2004.
(C) R. Carter. Mapping the Mind. London: Phoenix, 1999.
(D)
G. Rizzolatti, L. Fogassi, V. Gallese. "Mirrors in the Mind", Scientific American, 2006/11.
(E) O. Sacks. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. New York: Touchstone Books,
1998.