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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Musicophilia Musicophilia 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… OL277255W
Healing imagery and music Healing imagery and music Carol A. Bush If music be the food of health, play on! The Bonny Method of Guided Imagery, an innovative program of music therapy, uses the harmonies and melodies of classical masterworks to unlock inner stresses … OL3746997W
Measurement and evaluation of musical experiences Measurement and evaluation of musical experiences J. David Boyle,David J. Boyle,Rudolf E. Radocy Test, measurement, and evaluation data are not viewed as a panacea for music education, but there is little question that the use of valid and reliable data from such can provide music teachers, admi… OL5264683W
The World in Six Songs The World in Six Songs 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… OL7952953W
Beethoven's Anvil Beethoven's Anvil William L. Benzon Why does the brain create music? What is it about certain abstract patterns of sound that makes us want to dance? How can songs have deep emotional power despite lyrics that are simple and trite? … OL8203160W
Il suono ritrovato Il suono ritrovato Rita Ferri THE RECOGNIZED SOUND, because music finds sound inside persons and recognizes it when persons find it again. OL884203W