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Sinossi
In questo libro, Ball esplora i meccanismi che ci consentono di dare un senso alla musica e di emozionarci di fronte alla più semplice melodia come alla più elaborata composizione. In modo esauriente e documentato, l'autore avvicina il neofita e gli appassionati ai misteri di un'arte presente in tutte le culture, illuminandoci sull'incredibile lavoro che il nostro cervello compie per interpretare i messaggi sonori. Con il piglio dell'esperto, ma soprattutto dell'amante della musica, Ball conduce il lettore in un viaggio attraverso discipline che vanno dalla psicologia alla filosofia, dalla matematica alla neurologia e alla teoria musicale, di cui ripercorre l'evoluzione dai tempi di Pitagora ai nostri giorni. Ricco di esempi che spaziano da Bach a Jimi Hendrix, dal jazz al gamelan indonesiano e dalle filastrocche per bambini fino ai più arditi esperimenti dei compositori contemporanei, il volume affronta senza pregiudizi accademici o culturali gli aspetti che fanno della musica un'arte a sé stante, della quale non possiamo fare a meno. Introduzione di Franco Fabbri.
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- Pagine: 508
- Data di uscita: 18-03-2011
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Wow, i'm super excited to review this book. Overall, it was a really gratifying experience to read about music in such a scientific yet emotional manner. I first started this book on a plane, and four hours later I didnt realize I had landed. The first part is really breathtaking. Around the middle, Leggi tutto
It's testament to Philip Ball's readability that I got through this book without skipping bits too badly. But there's a lot of (for a non-musician) technical detail here, and really you need to reading the book at a piano, or I suppose listening to an audio version with musical examples, to properly Leggi tutto
Why does music stir our emotions? To what degree is our reaction to music innate, and to what degree is it learned? These are the basic questions discussed here, with lots of psychology experiments that shed some light on the subject. The book shows that even non-musicians, people who do not overtly Leggi tutto
Much more technical than I expected for a popular science book. It takes pains to explain detailed technical language but I found myself deeply confused at times, having no almost no practical experience making music. Of what I understood, I did get pleasure from the less technical chapters such as
52% confusing. 35% already heard it before. 13% interesting music information. 100% eh.
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Very dense and thorough, but not an easy read and often a little frustrating. One of the difficulties, I suppose, comes with reading about music (you need to hear the music, right). I often found myself clamoring for more examples and illustrations of points that he was making (you'd be in trouble i Leggi tutto
In this offering, Ball digs into music - with his usual comprehensivity and apparent mastery of the matter (this time, he is also personally knowledgeable on the topic). Many aspects of the best of the arts are treated (temperament, harmony, rythm, psicoacoustics, syntax and semantics, emotions and
We dont really understand the neurological basis of musical appreciation, so here comes another book on why we listen to music from the musical perspective.It's a well written study across the technical basis of music but falls down in its appreciation of the neurological interface.If you have a mus Leggi tutto
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