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Larry S. Sherman, a neuroscientist and lifelong musician, and Dennis Plies, a professional musician and teacher, collaborate to show how our brains and music work in harmony. Written for both musical and nonmusical people, including newcomers to brain science, this book is a lively and easy-to-read exploration of the neuroscience of music.
List of contents
Prelude
Overture
1. What Is Music, and Why Does It Exist?
2. How Your Brain Composes Music
3. Practicing Music, Part I: The Partnership of Motivated Music Students and Motivated Music Teachers
4. Practicing Music, Part II: Understanding the Neuroscience
5. Practicing Music, Part III: Changing Your Brain to Get It Right
6. How Your Brain Performs Music
7. How Your Brain Listens to Music
8. Why Your Brain Likes Music
Coda: The Final Jam with Dennis and Larry-Reflective Improvisation
Acknowledgments
Appendix A: First Survey
Appendix B: Second Survey
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Larry S. Sherman is a professor of neuroscience at the Oregon Health and Science University. An enthusiastic piano player since age four, he has published widely on brain development, aging, and disease, and given lectures on music and the brain throughout the world.
Dennis Plies, who was for many years a music professor at Warner Pacific University, has been involved with music for his entire life. Starting at the age of seven, he played marimba for audiences and on television, and he has recorded albums in genres including gospel, classical, and jazz.
Susi B. Davis began painting watercolors in her early teens. She continues to paint in watercolors and acrylics in her studio in Portland, Oregon, where she also teaches painting. She has previously illustrated several books, including children's books about animals and a hiking guide featuring flowers and plants in the Pacific Northwest.
Summary
Larry S. Sherman, a neuroscientist and lifelong musician, and Dennis Plies, a professional musician and teacher, collaborate to show how our brains and music work in harmony. Written for both musical and nonmusical people, including newcomers to brain science, this book is a lively and easy-to-read exploration of the neuroscience of music.
