Product Details
ISBN: 9781847920881
Category: General
Format: Hardback
Publication Date: 2010-02-04
Publisher: The Bodley Head LTD
Illustrations: Illustrations
Country of origin: GBR
Pages: 464
Pagination: 464 pages, Illustrations
Dimensions (mm): 241 x 162 x 38
Weight: 775g
The Music Instinct: How Music Works And Why We Can't Do Without It
* All human cultures seem to make music - today and through history. But why they do so, why music can excite deep passions, and how we make sense of musical sound at all are questions that have, until recently, remained profoundly mysterious. Now in The Music Instinct Philip Ball provides the first comprehensive, accessible survey of what is known