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The benefits of music in our lives are increasingly acknowledged by researchers and scientist. As human beings, we have taken the existence of music for granted and rarely think critically about music and its purpose. Perhaps for this reason, such critical thinking about music i…
"Music, neurology, and neuroscience : historical connections and perspectives provides a broad and comprehensive discussion of history and new discoveries regarding music and the brain, presenting a multidisciplinary overview on music processing, its effects on brain plasticity,…
" ... Is concerned with the very matter of musical expression: the hands and voices of virtuosic musicians."--Jacket. "Romantic Anatomies of Performance is concerned with the very matter of musical expression: the hands and voices of virtuosic musicians. Rubini, Chopin, Nourrit…
Romantic Anatomies of Performance takes as its subject the great virtuoso performers of the nineteenth century, examining the ways in which they thought of their own extraordinary gifts, the ways their contemporaries envisioned them, and how they have been imagined by history. I…
Beginning with the African musical heritage and its fusion with European forms in the New World, Marshall Stearns's history of jazz guides the reader through work songs, spirituls, ragtime, and the blues, to the birth of jazz in New Orleans and its adoption by St Louis, Chicago,…
Budding music fans will love discovering musical geniuses of every era, from Mozart and classical music to Bowie and pop, as well as finding out how music is created and what links it all together. The book looks at music throughout history, beginning with the first known melody…
This landmark book not only offers the first account of the history of emotion in Western music, with a broad sweep from Gregorian chant to Beyoncé, but also lays out an original theory for understanding musical emotion that centers the work of composers and performers.
<B>A colossal history spanning cultures, time, and space to explore the vibrant relationship between music and the human species.</b>
A colossal history spanning cultures, time, and space to explore the vibrant relationship between music and the human species.
Examines music in our everyday lives, music in world history, and music in evolution. -- Provided by publisher. 165 million years ago saw the birth of rhythm. 66 million years ago was the first melody. 40 thousand years ago Homo sapiens created the first musical instrument. To…