- Music, Psychological aspects, Social aspects, Electronic books
This book explores the connection between music and its performances, its composition, how we listen to it, why we enjoy it and the human brain.
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Spare, contemporary, warm and classical in form.
- sparerichly built
- contemporarynostalgic
- warmbleak
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
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About the book
- Author
- Daniel J. Levitin
- First published
- 2006
- Pages
- 320
- Publisher
- Pearson P T R, Dutton Adult, Dutton
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780143142324
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Daniel J. Levitin runs the Laboratory for Musical Perception, Cognition and Expertise at McGill University, where he holds the Bell Chair in the Psychology of Electronic Communication. Before becoming a neuroscientist, he worked as a session musician, sound engineer and record producer. He has written extensively both in scientific journals and music trade magazines such as Grammy and Billboard.
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