This is your brain on music : understanding a human obsession / Daniel Levitin.
By: Levitin, Daniel J
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BookPublisher: London : Atlantic Books, 2006Description: 322 p. ; 20 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 9781843547167.Subject(s): Music -- Psychological aspects | Music | Theory of music & musicology | Psychology | Music | Psychology: emotions | Cognition & cognitive psychologyDDC classification: 781.11 | 781.11 LEV | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Barcode | |
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Have you ever wondered why you can identify your favourite song from hearing only the first two notes? Or why you can't get that annoying jingle out of your head? Or why some songs move you and others leave you cold? Daniel Levitin's brilliantly original book has the answers.
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.
This text offers a comprehensive explanation of how humans experience music and unravels the mystery of our perennial love affair with it. It 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.
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Daniel J. Levitin was born on December 27, 1957 in San Francisco, California. He studied electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and music at the Berkley College of Music before dropping out of college to become a record producer and professional musician. He returned to school in his thirties, where he studied cognitive psychology/cognitive science, receiving a B.A. from Stanford University in 1992 and a M.Sc. in 1993 and Ph.D. in 1996 from the University of Oregon.He is a cognitive psychologist, neuroscientist, and author. He runs the Levitin Laboratory for Musical Perception, Cognition, and Expertise at McGill University. He has published extensively in scientific journals and music trade magazines such as Grammy and Billboard. He is also the author of several books including This Is Your Brain on Music, The World in Six Songs, and The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload.
(Bowker Author Biography)