This Is Your Brain on Music The Science of a Human Obsession
by Daniel J. Levitin
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I Love Music and I Love Science--Why Would I Want to Mix the Two?
1. What Is Music?
From Pitch to Timbre
2. Foot Tapping
Discerning Rhythm, Loudness, and Harmony
3. Behind the Curtain
Music and the Mind Machine
4. Anticipation
What We Expect from Liszt (and Ludacris)
5. You Know My Name, Look Up the Number
How We Categorize Music
6. After Dessert, Crick Was Still Four Seats Away from Me
Music, Emotion, and the Reptilian Brain
7. What Makes a Musician?
Expertise Dissected
8. My Favorite Things
Why Do We Like the Music We Like?
9. The Music Instinct
Evolution's #1 Hit
Appendices
Bibliographic Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
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 way our brains make sense of the world
- Why we are so emotionally attached to the music we listened to as teenagers, whether it was Fleetwood Mac, U2, or Dr. Dre
- That practice, rather than talent, is the driving force behind musical expertise
- How those insidious little jingles (called earworms) get stuck in our head
A Los Angeles Times Book Award finalist, This Is Your Brain on Music will attract readers of Oliver Sacks and David Byrne, as it is an unprecedented, eye-opening investigation into an obsession at the heart of human nature.
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- Lemolo Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3045
- Title
- This Is Your Brain on Music The Science of a Human Obsession
- Author
- Daniel J. Levitin
- Format/Binding
- Like new, no damage, minor shelf ware, no rips
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0452288525
- ISBN 13
- 9780452288522
- Publisher
- Plume
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- August 28, 2007
- Pages
- 352
- Keywords
- science, music, human brain, human nature
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- Non Fiction Books;
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