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The Music Instinct: How Music Works and Why We Can´t Do Without It
Philip Ball
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Description for The Music Instinct: How Music Works and Why We Can´t Do Without It
Paperback. Why have all human cultures - today and throughout history - made music? Why does music excite such rich emotion? And how do we make sense of musical sound? This title explores how the research in music psychology and brain science is piecing together the puzzle of how our minds understand and respond to music. Num Pages: 464 pages, Illustrations, music. BIC Classification: AV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 35. Weight in Grams: 432.
Why have all human cultures - today and throughout history - made music? Why does music excite such rich emotion? How do we make sense of musical sound?
These are questions that have, until recently, remained mysterious. Now The Music Instinct explores how the latest research in music psychology and brain science is piecing together the puzzle of how our minds understand and respond to music. Ranging from Bach fugues to nursery rhymes to heavy rock, Philip Ball interweaves philosophy, mathematics, history and neurology to reveal why music moves us in so many ways.
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Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
464
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
464
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099535447
SKU
V9780099535447
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About Philip Ball
Philip Ball writes regularly in the scientific and popular media and worked for many years as an editor for physical sciences at Nature. His books cover a wide range of scientific and cultural phenomena, and include Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads To Another (winner of the 2005 Aventis Prize for Science Books), The Music Instinct, Curiosity: How Science Became ... Read more
Reviews for The Music Instinct: How Music Works and Why We Can´t Do Without It
Wonderful account of why music matters... one of the finest and most versatile of current non-fiction writers
Sunday Times
Exemplary... In contemplating the mysteries of music we are also contemplating the mystery of ourselves... Ball, thankfully, doesn't try to provide any easy answers, but rather sends the reader back to the music a better listener
Observer
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Sunday Times
Exemplary... In contemplating the mysteries of music we are also contemplating the mystery of ourselves... Ball, thankfully, doesn't try to provide any easy answers, but rather sends the reader back to the music a better listener
Observer
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