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

by Philip Ball

Book Overview

Why have all human cultures - today and throughout history - made music? Why does music excite such rich emotion? How do we make sense of musical sound?

These are questions that have, until recently, remained mysterious. Now The Music Instinct explores how the latest research in music psychology and brain science is piecing together the puzzle of how our minds understand and respond to music. Ranging from Bach fugues to nursery...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0099535440
• ISBN13: 9780099535447
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Vintage Books USA
• Length: 452 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.1" x 7.8"