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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. Levitin demonstrates how composers exploit the way our brains make sense of the world in order to manipulate our reactions to their music and insists that despite our cultural distinction between an expert class of performers and everyone else, that we are more musically equipped than we think: we are in fact hardwired for music. Music is an obsession at the heart of human nature, even more fundamental to our species than language. In "This is Your Brain on Music Levitin" offers nothing less than a new way to unlock the mysteries of the human brain.
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`A dissection of music that inexorably builds to a grand finish... it only deepens the beautiful mystery that is music.' -- David Byrne, Talking Heads
`Endlessly stimulating.'
-- Oliver Sacks
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`Endlessly stimulating.'
-- Oliver Sacks
Ever wondered why you can identify your favourite song from hearing only the first two notes? Or why you can't get that annoying jingle out of your head? Daniel Levitin's breathtaking - and wholly accessible - book, now published in paperback, explains why.
'You'll never hear music in the same way again.' Classic FM Magazine
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- PublisherPi Press
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 0131862642
- ISBN 13 9780131862647
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages272
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