Music Instinct: How Music Works and Why We Can't Do Without It - Hardcover

Ball, Philip

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0199754276 ISBN 13: 9780199754274

Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

From Bach fugues to Indonesian gamelan, from nursery rhymes to rock, music has cast its light into every corner of human culture. But why music excites such deep passions, and how we make sense of musical sound at all, are questions that have until recently remained unanswered. Now in The Music Instinct, award-winning writer Philip Ball provides the first comprehensive, accessible survey of what is known--and still unknown--about how music works its magic, and why, as much as eating and sleeping, it seems indispensable to humanity. Deftly weaving together the latest findings in brain science with history, mathematics, and philosophy, The Music Instinct not only deepens our appreciation of the music we love, but shows that we would not be ourselves without it. The Sunday Times hailed it as "a wonderful account of why music matters," with Ball's "passion for music evident on every page."

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Philip Ball is a freelance writer and the author of numerous books, including Universe of Stone: A Biography of Chartres Cathedral and Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads To Another, which won the 2005 Aventis Prize for Science Books.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0199754276
• ISBN 13: 9780199754274
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 452
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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