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Book

The power of music : pioneering discoveries in the new science of song

Call Number

  • 781.11 M2828 (CEN)

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Edition

1st U.S. ed.

Publication Information

New York : Walker & Company, 2011.

Physical Description

xix, 263 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm.

Contents

  • The musical body and brain. Feeling the sound ; Music plays the body ; The brain plays music ; Is music our genetic birthright?
  • The musical self. Agony and ecstasy : how we listen ; Mind-bending notes : can music make us smarter? ; Music speaks ; Why music?
  • The resonant world. Whale songs, elephant bands, and dancing birds ; The music of the spheres
  • Music Rx. Pain, pills--or music ; The next wave? ; Beyond the concert hall.

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