Music, the Brain, and Ecstasy: How Music Captures Our Imagination by Robert Jourdain

Music, the Brain, and Ecstasy: How Music Captures Our Imagination

Robert Jourdain

400 pages • first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction music psychology science informative slow-paced

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What makes a distant oboe's wail beautiful? Why do some kinds of music lift us to ecstasy, but not others? How can music make sense to an ear and brain evolved for detecting the approaching lion or tracking the unsuspecting gazelle? Lyrically inte...

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