This is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
Lists
Pictures
Description:
In this groundbreaking union of art and science, rocker-turned-neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin explores the connection between music--its performance, its composition, how we listen to it, why we enjoy it--and the human brain. Taking on prominent thinkers who argue that music is nothing more than an evolutionary accident, Levitin poses that music is fundamental to our species, perhaps even more so than language. Drawing on the latest research and on musical examples ranging from Mozart to Duke Ellington to Van Halen, he reveals: - How composers produce some of the most pleasurable effects of listening to music by exploiting the
... (more)
Manufacturer: Plume/Penguin
Release date: 28 August 2007
ISBN-10 : 0452288525 | ISBN-13: 9780452288522
Release date: 28 August 2007
ISBN-10 : 0452288525 | ISBN-13: 9780452288522
Tags:
My tags:

Update feed
SabinKenobi posted a image 1 year ago
SabinKenobi added this to wanted list 1 year ago
Jane added this to a list 9 years, 1 month ago
Books I've Read (21 books items)