On Music: The Science of Human Obsession with Sound
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On Music: The Science of Human Obsession with Sound
14.99 €
Rocker-turned-neuroscientist Daniel Levitin explores the connection between music—playing it, composing it, listening to it, what we love about it—and the human brain. Dialogue with prominent thinkers who argue that music is little more than an evolutionary accident, Levitin argues that it is fundamental to our species. For most of human history, making and performing music was as natural as breathing and walking, and everyone around the world participated in it. Drawing on research and musical examples from Mozart to Duke Ellington to Eddie Van Halen, Levitin explains:
- How composers use insights into how our brains process the world to create the incredibly pleasurable listening experience;
- Why we become so emotionally attached to the music we listened to as teenagers;
- Why practice is even more important than talent in achieving musical mastery;
- How insidiously obsessive melodies get stuck in our heads.
This book is a story about how the brain and music evolved together, what music can tell us about the brain, and the brain about music, and what they can teach us about ourselves.
- How composers use insights into how our brains process the world to create the incredibly pleasurable listening experience;
- Why we become so emotionally attached to the music we listened to as teenagers;
- Why practice is even more important than talent in achieving musical mastery;
- How insidiously obsessive melodies get stuck in our heads.
This book is a story about how the brain and music evolved together, what music can tell us about the brain, and the brain about music, and what they can teach us about ourselves.
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