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The Musical Brain: And Other Stories

2015-03-03 Fiction
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Release : 2015-03-03
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Book Synopsis The Musical Brain: And Other Stories by : César Aira

Download or read book The Musical Brain: And Other Stories written by César Aira. This book was released on 2015-03-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A delirious collection of short stories from the Latin American master of micro-fiction. A delirious collection of short stories from the Latin American master of microfiction, César Aira–the author of at least eighty novels, most of them barely one hundred pages long–The Musical Brain & Other Stories comprises twenty tales about oddballs, freaks, and loonies. Aira, with his fuga hacia adelante or "flight forward" into the unknown, gives us imponderables to ponder and bizarre and seemingly out-of-context plot lines, as well as thoughtful and passionate takes on everyday reality. The title story, first published in the New Yorker, is the creme de la creme of this exhilarating collection.

MUSIC AND THE MIND

2015-05-19 Music
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Release : 2015-05-19
Genre : Music
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Book Synopsis MUSIC AND THE MIND by : Anthony Storr

Download or read book MUSIC AND THE MIND written by Anthony Storr. This book was released on 2015-05-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why does music have such a powerful effect on our minds and bodies? It is the most mysterious and most tangible of all forms of art. Yet, Anthony Storr believes, music today is a deeply significant experience for a greater number of people than ever before. In this book, he explores why this should be so. Drawing on a wide variety of opinions, Storr argues that the patterns of music make sense of our inner experience, giving both structure and coherence to our feelings and emotions. It is because music possesses this capacity to restore our sense of personal wholeness in a culture which requires us to separate rational thought from feelings that many people find it so life-enhancing that it justifies existence.

Introduction to the Musical Brain

1983 Music
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Release : 1983
Genre : Music
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Book Synopsis Introduction to the Musical Brain by : Don G. Campbell

Download or read book Introduction to the Musical Brain written by Don G. Campbell. This book was released on 1983. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Reflections on the Musical Mind

2013-07-28 Science
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Release : 2013-07-28
Genre : Science
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Book Synopsis Reflections on the Musical Mind by : Jay Schulkin

Download or read book Reflections on the Musical Mind written by Jay Schulkin. This book was released on 2013-07-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What's so special about music? We experience it internally, yet at the same time it is highly social. Music engages our cognitive/affective and sensory systems. We use music to communicate with one another--and even with other species--the things that we cannot express through language. Music is both ancient and ever evolving. Without music, our world is missing something essential. In Reflections on the Musical Mind, Jay Schulkin offers a social and behavioral neuroscientific explanation of why music matters. His aim is not to provide a grand, unifying theory. Instead, the book guides the reader through the relevant scientific evidence that links neuroscience, music, and meaning. Schulkin considers how music evolved in humans and birds, how music is experienced in relation to aesthetics and mathematics, the role of memory in musical expression, the role of music in child and social development, and the embodied experience of music through dance. He concludes with reflections on music and well-being. Reflections on the Musical Mind is a unique and valuable tour through the current research on the neuroscience of music.

Musicophilia

2010-02-05 Psychology
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Release : 2010-02-05
Genre : Psychology
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Book Synopsis Musicophilia by : Oliver Sacks

Download or read book Musicophilia written by Oliver Sacks. This book was released on 2010-02-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What goes on in human beings when they make or listen to music? What is it about music, what gives it such peculiar power over us, power delectable and beneficent for the most part, but also capable of uncontrollable and sometimes destructive force? Music has no concepts, it lacks images; it has no power of representation, it has no relation to the world. And yet it is evident in all of us–we tap our feet, we keep time, hum, sing, conduct music, mirror the melodic contours and feelings of what we hear in our movements and expressions. In this book, Oliver Sacks explores the power music wields over us–a power that sometimes we control and at other times don’t. He explores, in his inimitable fashion, how it can provide access to otherwise unreachable emotional states, how it can revivify neurological avenues that have been frozen, evoke memories of earlier, lost events or states or bring those with neurological disorders back to a time when the world was much richer. This is a book that explores, like no other, the myriad dimensions of our experience of and with music.

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