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This Is Your Brain on Music
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... Bill Cheatham, Whiskey Before Breakfast, Fiddler's Dram. Bluegrass is best when not a spectator sport.
And on topic, This is Your Brain on Music , good book.
... 1 shortbread cookie in the shape of a cowboy hat, 1 giraffe pen and the best part: 1984, Wuthering Heights, Demian, This is Your Brain on Music and Go, Dog, Go. Not bad for a $50 donation to the library. Most of the other celebrities chose Clive Cussler and the like. Guess I found the ...
... in science and arts and how the literature and science "supported" each other in late 18th and early 19th C G.Britain.
this is your brain on music
... actually a legitimate fear :)
What is the best advice you have to give:
Imitation of Christ
Thought for the day:
This is Your Brain on Music
How I would like to die:
Beat the Reaper
My soul’s present condition:
Catching Fire
Karen -- I read Daniel Levitin's This is Your Brain on Music in 2007, and I could use all your comments to describe that book too. I hated it. I don't know how this guy gets published, but his books seem to sell. I guess the premise sounds good.
... to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time by Sean Carroll
7. A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
8. This is Your Brain on Music by Daniel J. Levitin
First things first: I haven't started my next book yet. It will be This is How by M.J. Hyland , which I'll start tonight. I just finished Disquiet by Julia Leigh for which I posted a review.
I'm surprised that people can really keep together the threads of so many different novels ...
... PBS website, to the page for the NOVA "Musical Mind" program, and one of the books they recommended for further reading was This is your brain on Music (which is now on my ever-expanding wishlist. . . . :-) I'm trying to think if Levitin was on the program . . . (sound of old brain creaking . . ...
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Were either of these shows based on this book:
This is Your Brain on Music ?
I'm finally reading Suite Francaise -- and for my Non-Fiction selection, This is Your Brain on Music . But my garden is starting to take priority over reading, as it does every spring!
... to the less and less natural world and infectious disease.
the worst hard time (again).
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this is your brain on music Levitin
the birth of the clinic - is Foucault "right"? not really, but this is a very fascinating approach to analyzing changes in medical/soc ...
... Poker maybe? a history in recollection of one of philosophy's most memorable arguments. Musicophilia - a bit lighter or This is your brain on music - same general topic as Musicophilia, but a but less case study oriented. All 3 are well written.
I often get annoyed w/ pop-econ-sociology ...
... These are definatly books that I will read over and over, I can't say how much I loved these books!!!
I forgot to mention This is Your Brain on Music . I enjoyed this book almost as much as I love music. It was very interesting and someone who had no prior musical knowledge could understand it, ...
Finally got around to buying Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks, as well as my very own copy of This is Your Brain on Music by Levitin. My friends think that I am insane, but I love these kinds of books (including The World in Six Songs). Now to find reading time...
And I have This is Your Brain on Music on my list (as well as several other music books) and am very keen to hear about that one...
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Let's see, so far I have read...
1. The Tales of Beedle the Bard
2. The Hawk and the Jewel
3. The Hunger Games
4. This is Your Brain on Music
5. The Warrior Heir
6. The Wizard Heir
7. The Thief
Hopefully soon I'll have time to comment on them!
... last year. So far I have read...
1. The Tales of Beedle the Bard
2. The Hawk and the Jewel
3. The Hunger Games
4. This is Your Brain on Music
5. The Warrior Heir
6. The Wizard Heir
7. The Thief
I have been on quite the YA kick recently, so I'm off to a good start :) but I ...
... - a fascinating look at twentieth century music: the composers, their music and their political and social milieux.
This is Your Brain on Music by Daniel J. Levitin - neuroscience and music. Why does music affect us the way it does? From Mozart to Eminem.
Shakespeare: the ...
... Last Discovery of America by Richard Rodriguez
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600 Cable: Wire that Changed the World by Gillian Cookson
700 This is Your Brain on Music by Daniel Levitin
800 Omeros by Derek Walcott
900 Really the Blues by Mezz Mezzrow
Some nonfiction possibilities for your music category:
* This Is Your Brain on Music by Daniel Levitin
* Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks
* World in Six Songs by Daniel Levitin
* The Soloist by Steve Lopez
* Stradivari's Genius by Toby Faber
I also read a Deborah Crombie mystery, A Fi ...
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Burgett7 I read This is Your Brain on Music a couple of months ago and learned a slew of things. It was fascinating. Makes me think of my brain and music in new ways.
I also have This Is Your Brain on Music in my tbr pile--I'll watch for your review to see if I should move it to my Because I Want to to category. I'll also be looking to see if Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke should go into my fantasy category.
You have a lot of my ...
... appoint lawyers for indigent defendants. The book is a fascinating case study of how the court operates.
Just starting This is your brain on music . Like it so far.
I have This is Your Brain on Music on my secondary list. I will be interested to see what you think of it.
... by Davis, Jenkins and Hunt
2. A Brief History of Mexico by Lynn V. Foster
3. Blame Canada! by Toni Johnson-Woods
4. This Is Your Brain On Music by Daniel J. Levitin
5. 1776 by David McCullough
6. Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
7. From Impressionism to Anime by Susan J. Napie ...
... Guzman; just finished the graphic redoing of Coraline and The world in six songs which was not nearly as good as This is your brain on music .
#21 - i really enjoyed this is your brain on music - the second book was a bit disappointing.
Home with a cold, i've been reading Daniel Levitin's The world in six songs - his followup to this is your brain on music . As long as one skims over the repetitive and dubious couple of pages devoted to quasi-evolutionary "theorizing" in each chapter and the other two devoted to historical ...
This is Your Brain on Music ? I've never heard of it, but those were words that make some sence.
... basket- nearly broke my neck snatching it up and shoving it in my locker! So far it's great, maybe even better than This Is Your Brain On Music .
Books like this make me miss my carefree, pre-university days where I could spend five or six hours every day reading what I wanted...
I finished This is Your Brain on Music this weekend. I found it fascinating and my commentary inspired my husband to pick it up the second I finished.
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Am reading This Is Your Brain On Music . I'm only one chapter in and he's already managed to explain music theory such that I understand for the first time. Fascinating how the brain hears too.
... understand more once I've read that.
#71 Karenmarie My next book I'm going for something quite different, non-fiction. This is Your Brain on Music . I think the The World in Six Songs is his second book. Let me know how you like it.
#19: You might be interested in reading This is Your Brain on Music and The World in Six Songs by Daniel J. Levitin. Here you'll find a convincing argument that music is not created for play.
Music is important in such things as defining group identity (observe teenagers in the field to ...
... Daniel Levitin's second book on the neurology of musical perception, The World in Six Songs, hoping it's as good as this is your brain on music .
This is your Brain on Music - The science of a human obsession by Daniel J. Levitin
... ...
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you ...
The World In Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature by Daniel J. Levitin
I actually saved up for this book. This book was a planned purchase.
Now all I gotta do is read all these great books.
... just finish #23 Eclipse. I enjoyed it very much and can't wait for the fourth book. For a change of pace I'm know reading This is Your Brain on Music . It is a really interesting look at how our brains process music and what makes us like/dislike the music we like/dislike.
Detail . . . I read This is Your Brain on Music over Christmas, and Lucky Man just this last weekend. I agree 100% with both of your reviews. Are we the same person?
Yippppeeeeeee, I finished This is Your Brain on Music -- an engaging 70-page overview of music theory followed by 200 pages of blah blah blahblah, review here .
I also finished Michael J. Fox's memoir, Lucky ...
... himself, under the mentorship of his brother-in-law, Michael Pollan. Then it's back to climb the final hundred pages of This is Your Brain on Music . My reward: an arc of Anita Shreve's October release, Testimony.
I was trying so so hard, but am still only to page 170 in This is Your Brain on Music . Finally decided that it's because the book is written like a report, with absolutely no narrative drive. I will return for the information in the remaining 100 pages ... but for now it's back on my shelf in ...
Still working (an appropriate word) my way through This is Your Brain on Music (I wish it had more about music!), but finally pulled Like Water for Chocolate from my TBRs.
... sense of the song lyrics people can't get out of their heads ... can help people make sense of their lives."
Also This is Your Brain on Music by Daniel Levitin about the scientific connection between music and the brain.
Huh. Until I typed these two descriptions, it hadn't occurred ...
This is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession by Daniel J. Levitin
Interesting review on Musicophilia, Amanda. The last book I read last year was the similar This is Your Brain on Music . I was really disappointed and thought I might give Musicophilia a try--or maybe not. Based on your review, it's sounds too similarly disappointing and I'll give it the ...
... word) are different. I have been wanting to read the new book Proust was a Neuroscientist by Jonah Lehrer and the This is Your Brain on Music becuase they are both about the way the brain processes sound. I suspect that we are using different parts of our brain when we read then when ...
... More Than You
Ron Carlson Writes a Story
Something Happened
The Devil Wears Prada
There Are No Children Here
This is Your Brain on Music
We Are All Welcome Here
What Einstein Told His Cook
When You Eat at the Refrigerator, Pull up a Chair
You Are a Dog
You're Lucky Yo ...
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The Slate Diaries
Interviews from Red Sox Nation
Moneyball
November
The Fourth Bear
Head Case
December
This is Your Brain on Music
The Book of Jewish Values
The Adventures of Rabbi Harvey
Rabbi Harvey Rides Again
Greasy Rider
The Tales of Beedle the Bard
O Je ...
... new and I'm wondering if it's really a successful digest for the layman of all his wonder work, or if people who've read This is Your Brain on Music by Daniel J. Levitin or Music, The Brain, and Ecstasy by Robert Jourdain are going to be bored. Anyone else read these musical ...
5. This is Your Brain on Music by Daniel J. Levitin
pgs: 260. Read 25-26 January.
total pages: 1091
Hello Lily2124.
There are some interesting references to the Beatles's music in This is Your Brain on Music by Daniel J. Levitin, but you might have to wade through quite a lot of neuroscience to find them!
... (deferred)
The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell (*****)
The Zen of Eating by Ronna Kabatznick (***)
This is Your Brain on Music by Daniel J. Levitin (***)
... by Michael Blair
83. The Thirteen Clocks, by James Thurber
84. The French Lieutenant's Woman, by John Fowles
85. This is Your Brain on Music , by Daniel Levitin
Life happened and I didn't make my 100 goal, but I'm okay with that. I still read some great books in '07.
... a new group. Congratulations barclayb. I look forward to reading The Rest is Noise by Alex Ross. I've been reading This is Your Brain on Music by Daniel J. Levitin and have learned new ways of listening therefrom.
I hope to find more music-related books here as other LT members ...
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The Zen of Eating# by Ronna Kabatznick (***)
This is Your Brain on Music # by Daniel J. Levitin (***) (See review)
Anthologies ...
I’m taking the 888 Challenge : "Read 8 books each in 8 different categories in 2008."
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Edited to move remainder of post to LT's 888 Challenge group .
... to find some interesting and engagingly-written books which have appealed to other members.
At the moment I am reading This is Your Brain on Music by Daniel J. Levitin which I am finding quite fascinating. I'm also dipping into two Peter Ackroyd books: London - the Biography and Thames ...
... GoHs James Patrick Kelly and Johnathan Lethem.
Currently Re-reading Little, Big and reading for the first time This is Your Brain on Music .
Reading Lolita In Tehran: A Memoir In Books - Nafisi
This Is Your Brain On Music: The Science Of A Human Obsession - Levitin
The Anatomy Of Peace - Emery Reves
The Geography Of Thought - R. Nisbett
Spineless Wonders: Strange Tales From The Invertebrate World - Coniff
... my way through
The Highly Sensitive Person really good so far.
The Traveller not too great yet, but it's early.
This is Your Brain on Music Brilliant but deep and my mind keeps wandering off for something lighter.
And Einstein's Dreams which I received a few days ago from a fellow ...
As I mentioned before Lolita was selected for me, I'm in the middle of This is Your Brain on Music which I'm roughly half way through and loving it. For anyone who plays an instrument or has more than a passing interest in music, I'd already recommend it.
Problem is...we recently bought a Wi ...
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Sorry for the delay but the review explains...
I've just jumped onto a new book, This is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession by Daniel Levitin, but I'd welcome a new selection (to be read next). In order to focus my "selector" to ...
... up another book by Starling any time in the near future. I have two nonfiction books going at the moment. The first is This Is Your Brain on Music by Daniel J. Levitin. The second is Everything Is Miscellaneous by David Weinberger. Both excellent.
Have also recently finished ...
This is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession by Daniel J. Levitin
and Hearing and Writing Music : Professional Training for Today's Musician by Ron Gorow which I'd already begun reading from a library loan. It's fabulous and I can't wait to really dig into it now ...
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