Music, The Brain, And Ecstasy: How Music Captures Our Imagination
by Robert Jourdain
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Read in May, 2008
okay, so it took me a while to read this book, but i finally finished it, hooray! two reasons: 1. it was a self-task of mine to read this book, even though i knew most of the information presented there. 2. i went on 2 tours with 2 different bands over the 3-week period.
now that i've got those excuses out of the way, on to the good stuff. so i think this book is wonderful for those who want a general, nontechnical approach to music cognition (including psychoacoustics and neuromusicology)....more
now that i've got those excuses out of the way, on to the good stuff. so i think this book is wonderful for those who want a general, nontechnical approach to music cognition (including psychoacoustics and neuromusicology)....more
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Read in April, 2007
recommends it for:
people with brains
I wouldn't put this in the 'easy reads' pile, but the wealth of information in this book is astounding. My wife called the writing "scientific-y" which is accurate. You will learn the physics of sound, what the your brain and ears do with it and the profound difference between noise and music.
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Read in November, 2007
recommends it for:
Music people.
This book was weird. It was way too frilly for a science book. I'm all for imagery, but this was too syrupy or something. The cool facts about music and listening to music were buried under two or three pages of needless contextual fluff.
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Read in January, 2003
COvers everything you want to know about what music is, how it is made, and how the human body percieves it. This book was a large part of my source material for my college papers on composition.
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Has a copy to sell/swap
I actually bought this book and have read a few chapters but I would love to finish it. It's a science non-fiction. But very cool.
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Read in February, 2008
recommends it for:
thesis-writers.
third time i've read it... more to be added later - too bust taking annotations for incorporation into my thesis...
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Read in January, 2007
This guy is a bit mypopic and Euroccentric, but some of his observations are spot on.
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