David Mayer Epstein (October 3, 1930 – January 15, 2002 [1]) was an American composer, conductor, and music scientist who taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [2]
He was the author of Shaping Time: Music, the Brain, and Performance, a work on the neurological basis for various elements of music theory, [3] [4] and co-editor of Beauty and the Brain: Biological Aspects of Aesthetics. [5]
References
- ^ "Retired MIT Conductor David Epstein dies at 71; Brought the joy of music to campus for 33 years". MIT News. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 17 January 2002. Retrieved 2016-01-22.
- ^ Long, Tom (17 January 2002). "David Mayer Epstein". The Boston Globe. p. B5.
- ^ Repp, Bruno H. (1995). "A review of David Epstein's 'Shaping Time: Music, the Brain, and Performance'" (PDF). Haskins Laboratories Status Report on Speech Research. 119/120: 283–291. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-10-17. Retrieved 2016-01-22.
- ^ Adlington, Robert (1997-01-01). "Review of Shaping Time: Music, the Brain, and Performance". Music Analysis. 16 (1): 155–171. doi: 10.2307/854119. JSTOR 854119.
- ^ Rentschler, Ingo; Herzberger, Barbara; Epstein, David (1988). Beauty and the Brain: Biological Aspects of Aestetics. Basel: Birkhäuser. ISBN 978-3-7643-1924-3.
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