This is Your Brain on Music
Author(s): Daniel J. Levitin
This is the first book to offer a comprehensive explanation of how humans experience music and to unravel the mystery of our perennial love affair with it. Using musical examples from Bach to The Beatles, he reveals the role of music in human evolution, shows how our musical preferences begin to form even before we are born and explains why music can offer such an emotional experience.
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"'A dissection of music perception and creation that inexorably builds to a grand finish. Despite illuminating a lot of what goes on with music this book doesn't "spoil" enjoyment - it only deepens the beautiful mystery that is music.' David Byrne, Talking Heads 'Endlessly stimulating' Oliver Sacks"
General Fields
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- : Atlantic Books
- : Atlantic Books
- : 08 August 2007
- : 250mm X mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : 320
- : 1207
- : Hardback
- : Daniel J. Levitin
