Every Brain Needs Music - The Neuroscience of Making and Listening to Music

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 and Dennis Plies
With Illustrations by Susi B. Davis

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.

Product details

• Authors: Dennis Plies, Lawrence Sherman, Lawrence Plies Sherman
• Assisted by: Susi Davis (Illustration)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.09.2024
• EAN: 9780231219112
• ISBN: 978-0-231-21911-2
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music theory; MUSIC / Instruction & Study / Theory, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Neuroscience, Neurosciences, Theory of music & musicology, Theory of music and musicology, music; neuroscience; music theory