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understanding a human obsession

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An edition of This Is Your Brain on Music (2006)

This is your brain on music

understanding a human obsession

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  • ★★★ ★ 3.9 (12 ratings) ·
  • 71 Want to read
  • 1 Currently reading
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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, Levitin 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. 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 understand it, and its role in human life.

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Atlantic
Language
English
Pages
322

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Subjects

Music, Psychological aspects, Social aspects, Electronic books, Música, Aspectes psicològics, Nervous System Physiological Phenomena, Psychology, MUSIC / Instruction & Study / Theory, PSYCHOLOGY / Neuropsychology, Auditory Perception, Aspect psychologique, Musique, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, Music, psychological aspects

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This is your brain on music: understanding a human obsession
2008, Atlantic
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This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
August 28, 2007, Plume
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This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
August 16, 2007, Penguin Audio
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This is your brain on music: understanding a human obsession
2007, Atlantic
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This Is Your Brain on Music
May 12, 2006, Pearson P T R
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This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
August 3, 2006, Dutton Adult, Dutton
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This Is Your Brain on Music
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Table of Contents

Introduction: I love music and I love science
why would I want to mix the two?
What is music? : from pitch to timbre
Foot tapping : discerning rhythm, loudness, and harmony
Behind the curtain : music and the mind machine
Anticipation : what we expect from Liszt (and Ludacris)
You know my name, look up the number : how we categorize music
After dessert, Crick was still four seats away from me : music, emotion, and the reptilian brain
What makes a musician? : expertise dissected
My favorite things : why do we like the music we like?
The music instinct : evolution's #1 hit.

Edition Notes

Originally published: New York: Dutton, 2006; London: Atlantic, 2007.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-306) and index.

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Copyright Date
2006

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
781.11
Library of Congress
ML3830 .L49 2008

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Pagination
vi, 322 pages
Number of pages
322

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OL37026267M
Internet Archive
thisisyourbraino0000levi
ISBN 10
1843547163
ISBN 13
9781843547167
OCLC/WorldCat
864697262

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This book explores the connection between music and its performances, its composition, how we listen to it, why we enjoy it and the human brain.

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