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This is your brain on music : the science of a human obsession / Daniel J. Levitin.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Plume, 2007Copyright date: ©2006Description: viii, 322 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780452288522
  • 0452288525
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 781/.11 22
LOC classification:
  • ML3830 .L38 2007
Contents:
Introduction: I love music and I love science - why would I want to mix the two? -- What is music?: from pitch to timbre -- Foot tapping: discerning rhythm, loudness, and harmony -- Behind the curtain: music and the mind machine -- Anticipation: what we expect from Liszt (and Ludacris) -- You know my name, look up the number: how we categorize music -- After dessert, crick was still four seats away from me: music, emotion, and the reptilian brain -- What makes a musician?: expertise dissected -- My favorite things: why do we like the music we like? -- The music instinct: evolution's #1 hit.
Action note:
  • UMass copy: EAST commitment
Summary: Explores the relationship between the mind and music by drawing on recent findings in the fields of neuroscience and evolutionary psychology to discuss such topics as the sources of musical tastes and the brain's responses to music.
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Book Book Vermont Jazz Center Book Collection Archive Room ML3830.L38 2007 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 2 Available Eugene Uman Collection 39088000001218
Book Book Vermont Jazz Center Book Collection Archive Room ML3830.L38 2007 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available Eugene Uman Collection 39088000001212

Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-306) and index.

Introduction: I love music and I love science - why would I want to mix the two? -- What is music?: from pitch to timbre -- Foot tapping: discerning rhythm, loudness, and harmony -- Behind the curtain: music and the mind machine -- Anticipation: what we expect from Liszt (and Ludacris) -- You know my name, look up the number: how we categorize music -- After dessert, crick was still four seats away from me: music, emotion, and the reptilian brain -- What makes a musician?: expertise dissected -- My favorite things: why do we like the music we like? -- The music instinct: evolution's #1 hit.

Explores the relationship between the mind and music by drawing on recent findings in the fields of neuroscience and evolutionary psychology to discuss such topics as the sources of musical tastes and the brain's responses to music.

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