Music, the Brain, and Ecstasy

Music, the Brain, and Ecstasy
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Publisher : William Morrow
Total Pages : 410
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015035735375
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Book Synopsis Music, the Brain, and Ecstasy by : Robert Jourdain

Download or read book Music, the Brain, and Ecstasy written by Robert Jourdain and published by William Morrow. This book was released on 1997 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the evolution of music and introduces surprising new concepts of memory and perception, knowledge and attention, motion and emotion, all at work as music takes hold of us. Along the way, a fascinating cast of characters brings Jourdain's narrative to vivid life: "idiots savants" who absorb whole pieces on a single hearing, composers who hallucinate entire compositions, a psychic who claimed to take dictation from long-dead composers, and victims of brain damage who.


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