The Music Instinct: How Music Works and Why We Can't Do without It

Informationen zum Autor Philip Ball Klappentext Why have all human cultures - today and throughout history - made music? Why does music excite such rich emotion? And how do we make sense of musical sound? This title explores how the research in music psychology and brain science is piecing together the puzzle of how our minds understand and respond to music. Zusammenfassung Why have all human cultures - today and throughout history - made music? Why does music excite such rich emotion? And how do we make sense of musical sound? This title explores how the research in music psychology and brain science is piecing together the puzzle of how our minds understand and respond to music.

Product details

• Authors: Philip Ball, Ball Philip
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 03.02.2011
• EAN: 9780099535447
• ISBN: 978-0-09-953544-7
• No. of pages: 464
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 33 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); popular science, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Neuroscience, Neurosciences