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Cargando... This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession (edición 2006)por Daniel J. Levitin (Autor)
Información de la obraTu cerebro y la música : el estudio científico de una obsesión humana por Daniel J. Levitin
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. On page 60 of this book the author writes "On Paula Abdul's Straight Up there is so much going on, it is difficult to describe it in words" Yet, he spends the rest of the page doing just that . It's a tactic Levitin uses throughout the book, and it just doesn't work. You simply can not appreciate a song by reading about it. Music is something that must be heard to be enjoyed. Levitin raises some interesting arguments and I believe that as a lecture, with audio, this might be a interesting presentation. As a book, it just doesn't cut it. Pop Science, meet Pop Music. Pop Music, Pop Science. It’s fun to hear how precisely specialists deploy concepts like pitch, timbre and rhythm in trying to explain how music works, and how intricately laboratory experiments can simulate/stimulate brain activity, but the brain is not the mind, and even (or especially) cognitive neuroscientists won't crack the ineffability of music. The chapter on the origins of music shows just how speculative and tentative the science is. What would Junior Kimbrough say? Libro ben scritto, curato (ottima anche l'edizione Codice) e competente. In realtà l'autore non si limita ad affrontare la musica dal punto di vista di quel che accade nel cervello ascoltandola (e qui riesce bene nell'opera anche se a tratti risulta un po' noioso), ma giunge a comporre una delle più accessibili introduzioni ad alcuni concetti musicali ostici ai più (mi riferisco alle trattazioni di pitch, timbro, ritmo, intensità e armonia). Inoltre contiene moltissimi esempi musicali che, se già non li si conosce, viene voglia di andarsi ad ascoltare. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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