Of Music and Music-Making [1 ed.] 039300242X, 9780393002423

Of Mind and Music 9781501720444

In this fascinating account of the way in which we understand music, Laird Addis builds on the idea, first articulated b

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Foundations of Christian Music : the Music of pre-Constantinian Christianity

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Musicophilia - Tales of Music and the Brain

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Music and the Aesthetics of Modernity: Essays

This book encourages a debate over musical modernity; a debate considering the question whether an examination of the hi

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Music and the Forms of Life 9780520389120

Inventors in the age of the Enlightenment created lifelike androids capable of playing music on real instruments. Music

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Music, Math, and Mind: The Physics and Neuroscience of Music 0231193785, 9780231193788

Why does a clarinet play at lower pitches than a flute? What does it mean for sounds to be in or out of tune? How are em

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Mortality and Music: Popular Music and the Awareness of Death 9781472534514, 9781474219198, 9781472526809

The evidence of death and dying has been removed from the everyday lives of most Westerners. Yet we constantly live with

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Music, Math, and Mind: The Physics and Neuroscience of Music 9780231550505

This book offers a lively exploration of the mathematics, physics, and neuroscience that underlie music. Written for mus

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Angela Carter and Folk Music: ‘Invisible Music’, Prose and the Art of Canorography 9781350296282, 9781350296312, 9781350296299

From her unique standpoint as singer-songwriter-scholar, Polly Paulusma examines the influences of Carter’s 1960s folk s

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Music and Manipulation: On the Social Uses and Social Control of Music 9780857457141

Since the beginning of human civilization, music has been used as a device to control social behavior, where it has oper

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