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

Informationen zum Autor Philip Ball writes regularly in the scientific and popular media and worked for many years as an editor for physical sciences at Nature . His books cover a wide range of scientific and cultural phenomena, and include Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads To Another (winner of the 2005 Aventis Prize for Science Books), The Music Instinct , Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything, Serving The Reich: The Struggle for the Soul of Science Under Hitler and Invisible: The History of the Unseen from Plato to Particle Physics . 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