What makes a distant oboe's wail beautiful? Why do some kinds of music lift us to ecstasy, but not others? How can music make sense to an ear and brain evolved for detecting the approaching lion or tracking the unsuspecting gazelle? Lyrically interweaving discoveries from science, psychology, music theory, paleontology, and philosophy, Robert Jourdian brilliantly examines why m...(展开全部)

A comprehensive survey of the latest neuroscientific research into the effects of music on the brain Covers a variety of topics fundamental for music perception, including musical syntax, musical semantics, music and action, music and emotion Includes general introductory chapters to engage a broad readership, as well as a wealth of detailed research material for experts Offe...(展开全部)

A comprehensive survey of the latest neuroscientific research into the effects of music on the brain Covers a variety of topics fundamental for music perception, including musical syntax, musical semantics, music and action, music and emotion Includes general introductory chapters to engage a broad readership, as well as a wealth of detailed research material for experts Offe...(展开全部)

Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of our first date. It can lift us out of depression when nothing else can. It can get us dancing to its beat. But the power of music goes much, much further. Indeed, music occupies more areas of our brain than language does—humans are a musical species. Oliver Sacks’s compa...(展开全部)

Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of our first date. It can lift us out of depression when nothing else can. It can get us dancing to its beat. But the power of music goes much, much further. Indeed, music occupies more areas of our brain than language does—humans are a musical species. Oliver Sacks’s compa...(展开全部)

大卫·拜恩 David Bryne ●1952年5月14日出生于苏格兰敦巴顿，从小便显现出对音乐的独特偏爱：3岁时就常常捣鼓家里的留声机，5岁学会吹口琴，在进入高中之前就已经掌握吉他、手风琴和小提琴。 ●20岁出头组建传声头像乐队，一举成为推动西方摇滚乐第三次变革的先锋 者，不仅圈粉无数，还获得业内人士的一致好评。作为传声头像的主唱和灵魂人物，拜恩一次次带领乐队乃进入未知领域，其前卫的实验性和非凡的艺术性深刻地影响了流行乐的发展。2002年，该乐队入选西方摇滚乐至高荣誉“摇滚名人堂”。《时代周刊》盛赞其为“摇滚的文艺复兴人”。 ●才华横溢，涉足多个艺术领域——影视指导、电影配乐、视觉艺术等。1986年，自编自导自演音乐片《真实故事》（True Stories）。1987年，与日本音乐人坂本龙一及我国作曲家苏聪合作，为影片《末代皇帝》创作音乐，赢得了奥...(展开全部)

How Music Works is David Byrne’s remarkable and buoyant celebration of a subject he’s spent a lifetime thinking about. He explains how profoundly music is shaped by its time and place, and how the advent of recording technology forever changed our relationship to playing, performing, and listening to music. Acting as historian and anthropologist, raconteur and social scientist,...(展开全部)

"Writing with grace and clarity...he touches on everything from the evolution of the Western tonal system, to the Freudian theory of music as infantile escapism, to the differing roles o the right and left brain in perceiving music." WALL STREET JOURNAL Drawing on his own life long passion for music and synthesizing the theories of Plato, Schopenhauer, Stravinsky, Nietzsche, B...(展开全部)

In a series of powerful strokes, the music of Beethoven's last years redefined his legacy and enlarged the realm of experience accessible to the creative imagination. Maynard Solomon's "Late Beethoven" investigates the phenomenon of the final phase, focusing especially on the striking metamorphosis in Beethoven's system of beliefs that began early in his fifth decade and eventu...(展开全部)

In a series of powerful strokes, the music of Beethoven's last years redefined his legacy and enlarged the realm of experience accessible to the creative imagination. Maynard Solomon's "Late Beethoven" investigates the phenomenon of the final phase, focusing especially on the striking metamorphosis in Beethoven's system of beliefs that began early in his fifth decade and eventu...(展开全部)