- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Why This Book?
- Part I The Nature of Time
- Part II Music = Time Manipulated
- Part III Song = Music + Idea
- 6 Campfire Songs: Rhythm and Entrainment
- 7 Music and Language
- 8 Consonance and Dissonance: The Evolution of Line
- Part IV Theatre = Song + Mimesis
- 9 Ritual, Arousal, Reward, Ecstasy
- Introduction: From High Mass to Ecstasy
- The Development of Ritual, Shamanism, and Altered States of Consciousness
- The Neuroscience of Arousal and Reward in the Altered States of Consciousness of Shamanism and Theatre
- Cognitive Models for Music in Theatre
- Conclusion: Experiments in Ecstasy
- Ten Questions, Part I
- Things to Share, Part I
- Ten Questions Part II
- Things to Share, Part II
- Notes
- Bibliography
- 10 Music, Mimesis, Memory
- 11 The Bronze Age and the Invention of Writing
- 12 Conclusion: Evolution and Greek Theatre
- Introduction: A Case Study
- The Origins of Greek Music: Music = Time Manipulated
- The Development of Greek Song: Song = Music + Idea
- Music as Math Made Audible: The Greeks Revisit Consonance and Dissonance
- The First Autonomous Theatre: Theatre = Song + Mimesis
- Plato and His World
- Aristotle’s Theatre
- Conclusion of the Conclusion
- Eleven Questions, Part I
- Eleven Questions, Part II
- Things to Share
- Notes
- Bibliography
- 9 Ritual, Arousal, Reward, Ecstasy
- Index
Music as a Chariot
The Evolutionary Origins of Theatre in Time, Sound, and Music
Richard K. Thomas
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