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Guitar zero
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Gary F. Marcus |
On the eve of his 40th birthday, Gary Marcus, a renowned scientist with no discernible musical talent, learns to play the guitar and investigates how anyone -- of any age -- can become musical. Do yo… |
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How Music Works
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David Byrne |
The Rock-and-Roll Hall of Fame inductee and co-founder of Talking Heads presents a celebration of music that offers insight into the roles of time, place, and recording technology, discussing how evo… |
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The Oxford handbook of music psychology
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Ian Cross,Susan Hallam |
"The field of Music Psychology has grown dramatically in the past 20 years, to emerge from being just a minor topic to one of mainstream interest within the brain sciences. However, until now, there … |
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Foundations of musical grammar
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Lawrence Michael Zbikowski |
"How is it that humans are able to organize seemingly random sounds into the captivating sonic structures we call music? In this volume, Lawrence M. Zbikowski aruges that humans' unique ability to co… |
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The sonic boom
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Joel Beckerman |
"From horror movie scores to national anthems to the crunchy sound of potato chips, sound and music greatly impact how we feel about our lives and the messages and products we encounter every day. Wi… |
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The new analog
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Damon Krukowski |
224 pages : 21 cm |
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A well-tempered mind
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Peter Perret,Janet Fox |
Peter Perret, conductor of the Winston-Salem Symphony, chronicles in A Well-Tempered Mind how a brief NPR feature about music and the brain inspired him to create an innovative music education progra… |
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Musicophilia
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Oliver Sacks |
Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of our first date. It can lift us out of depression when nothing else can. It can get us danci… |
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Music in Everyday Life
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Tia DeNora |
The power of music to influence mood, create scenes, routines and occasions is widely recognised and this is reflected in a strand of social theory from Plato to Adorno that portrays music as an infl… |
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The World in Six Songs
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Daniel J. Levitin |
The author of the New York Times bestseller and Los Angeles Times Book Award Finalist This Is Your Brain on Music tunes us in to six evolutionary musical forms that brought about the evolution of hum… |
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This Is Your Brain on Music
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Daniel J. Levitin |
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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Deep Listeners
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Judith Becker |
In Deep Listeners, Judith Becker brings together scientific and cultural approaches to the study of music and emotion, and music and trancing. Becker claims that persons who experience deep emotions … |
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