This Is Your Brain on Music
Understanding a Human Obsession
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This Is Your Brain on Music
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Daniel Levitin
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Daniel Levitin
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Daniel Levitin
About this listen
Brought to you by Penguin.
Using musical examples from Bach to the Beatles, Levitin reveals the role of music in human evolution, shows how our musical preferences begin to form even before we are born and explains why music can offer such an emotional experience.
Music is an obsession at the heart of human nature, even more fundamental to our species than language. In This Is Your Brain on Music Levitin offers nothing less than a new way to understand it and its role in human life.
©2006 Daniel Levitin (P)2020 Penguin AudioWhat a brain!
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Whether you like music or not this a informative book about your brain.
Thanks Daniel :-)
Excellent listening pleasure :-)
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I will definitely need to listen to this book again to fully grasp a lot of the things covered. I'm very glad that I already have a reasonable understanding of physics because if I had not already studied physics, I would not have been able to get through the first chapter and I would have given up on it without bothering with the rest of the book which would have been a terrible shame because I enjoyed it greatly.
I would have liked an accompanying PDF which would have been a significant help to explain some of the more complex details. While I understand music from a physics perspective, unfortunately, I have limited knowledge about music when it comes to many of the concepts covered in this book. However, I am determined that I will learn more about these concepts because I found this book so intensely interesting and I will have to look up many of the things such as what is meant by a c minor or major and get a better understanding about chords so that I can understand the concepts better and find out the information about music that I am lacking in order to understand this book better. There are also many other sections that I will also be looking up to get a better understanding and I have already found the contact details for the author, who I plan to email in the hope that he will read my response to this book and maybe he might advise me on where I can get more information to understand this book better so that I can fully appreciate its full academic and musical value
Incredibly and intensely interesting and extremely fascinating.
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Very Interesting
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As a musician his humour had me laughing and his obviously hard worked for knowledge is a wealth of knowledge I’m so incredibly grateful for.
Thank you Daniel, you have done a great service for humanity.
Masterful
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Not what I thought the book was about
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