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How can music take us beyond ourselves, generating a sense of wonder and amazement, opening up new ways of knowing and revealing new kinds of understanding? Why do only certain pieces of music, whether complex classical symphonies or simple folk tunes, trigger personal transcendence while most others do not? Why are transcendent experiences more common in encounters with music than with visual arts?
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Jonathan Berger is the Denning Family Provostial Professor in Music at Stanford University, where he teaches composition, music theory, and cognition at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA).
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