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Book

Why you love music : from Mozart to Metallica : the emotional power of beautiful sounds

Call Number

  • 781.11 P8845 (CEN)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2016.

Physical Description

viii, 310 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Contents

  • What is your taste in music?
  • Lyrics, and meaning in music
  • Music and your emotions
  • Repetition, surprises and goosebumps
  • Music as medicine
  • Can music make you more intelligent?
  • From psycho to star wars-the power of movie music
  • Are you musically talented?
  • A few notes about notes
  • What's in a tune?
  • Untangling the melody from the accompaniment
  • Don't believe everything you hear
  • Dissonance
  • How musicians push our emotional buttons
  • Why you love music
  • Fiddly details A : timbre
  • Fiddly details B : post-skip reversal
  • Fiddly details C : harmonizing a tune
  • Fiddly details D : how many tunes are hidden in the harmony?
  • Fiddly details E : scales and keys.

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