Every Brain Needs Music : : The Neuroscience of Making and Listening to Music /

Every Brain Needs Music : : The Neuroscience of Making and Listening to Music / / Dennis Plies, Lawrence Sherman.

Whenever a person engages with music—when a piano student practices a scale, a jazz saxophonist riffs on a melody, a teenager sobs to a sad song, or a wedding guest gets down on the dance floor—countless neurons are firing. Playing an instrument requires all of the resources of the nervous system, i...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023
VerfasserIn:
Sherman, Lawrence,
Plies, Dennis,
MitwirkendeR:
Davis, Susi,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2023]
©2023
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 62 figures
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • PRELUDE A NEUROSCIENTIST AND A MUSICIAN WALK INTO A BAR GYM
  • OVERTURE
  • First Movement WHAT IS MUSIC, AND WHY DOES IT EXIST?
  • Second Movement HOW YOUR BRAIN COMPOSES MUSIC
  • Third Movement PRACTICING MUSIC, PART I THE PARTNERSHIP OF MOTIVATED MUSIC STUDENTS AND MOTIVATED MUSIC TEACHERS
  • Fourth Movement PRACTICING MUSIC, PART II UNDERSTANDING THE NEUROSCIENCE
  • Fifth Movement PRACTICING MUSIC, PART III CHANGING YOUR BRAIN TO GET IT RIGHT
  • Sixth Movement HOW YOUR BRAIN PERFORMS MUSIC
  • Seventh Movement HOW YOUR BRAIN LISTENS TO MUSIC
  • Eighth Movement WHY YOUR BRAIN LIKES MUSIC
  • CODA THE FINAL JAM WITH DENNIS AND LARRY: A REFLECTIVE IMPROVISATION
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • APPENDIX A FIRST SURVEY
  • APPENDIX B SECOND SURVEY
  • NOTES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

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