kvmhope.blogg.se - This is your brain on music by daniel j levitin

That practice, rather than talent, is the driving force behind musical expertise.

Why we are so emotionally attached to the music we listened to as teenagers, whether it was Fleetwood Mac, U2, or Dr.

How composers produce some of the most pleasurable effects of listening to music by exploiting the way our brains make sense of the world.

Taking on prominent thinkers who argue that music is nothing more than an evolutionary accident, Levitin poses that music is fundamental to our species, perhaps even more so than language. Drawing on the latest research and on musical examples ranging from Mozart to Duke Ellington to Van Halen, he reveals: Levitin explores the connection between music-its performance, its composition, how we listen to it, why we enjoy it-and the human brain.

In this groundbreaking union of art and science, rocker-turned-neuroscientist Daniel J.