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Guitar Zero: The New Musician and the Science of Learning by Gary Marcus Publisher Comments On the eve of his 40th birthday, Gary Marcus, a renowned scientist with no discernible musical talent, learns to play the guitar and investigates how anyone—of any age —can become musical. Do you have to be born musical to become musical? Do... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover 
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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks Publisher Comments With the same trademark compassion and erudition he brought to The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks explores the place music occupies in the brain and how it affects the human condition. In Musicophilia, he shows us a variety of what he... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment and the Tuning of the World by R Murray Schafer Publisher Comments Schafer contends that we suffer from an overabundance of acoustic information and explores ways to restore our ability to hear the nuances of sounds around us. This book is a pioneering exploration of our acoustic environment, past and present, and an... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Perfect Wrong Note: Learning to Trust Your Musical Self by William Westney Publisher Comments In this groundbreaking book, prize-winning pianist and noted educator William Westney helps readers discover their own path to the natural, transcendent fulfillment of making music. Drawing on experience, psychological insight, and wisdom ancient and... (read more) Your price: $18.99 New - Trade Paper
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The Singing Neanderthals: The Origins of Music, Language, Mind, and Body by Steven Mithen Publisher Comments The propensity to make music is the most mysterious, wonderful, and neglected feature of humankind. In this book, Mithen explores music as a fundamental aspect of the human condition, encoded into the human genome during the evolutionary history of our... (read more) Your price: $20.00 New - Trade Paper
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Essential Music Intelligence by Louise Montello Publisher Comments Montello writes that everyone has the innate ability to use music for healing, creativity and radiant wholeness. This book provides a systematic program for showing readers how to engage with music in this way. 6 illustrations.... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Power of Sound: How to Manage Your Personal Soundscape for a Vital, Productive, and Healthy Life, with CD (Audio) by Joshua Leeds Publisher Comments Discover firsthand in this book/CD set the powerful effects sound has on you and learn to customize your own soundscape for a better quality of life. •Sound pioneer Joshua Leeds shows how to use music to reduce stress, enhance learning, improve... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Psychology of Music by Carl Emil Seashore Publisher Comments Standard study by founder of Seashore test. Relationship between physical phenomena of sounds and our perception of them. Music as a medium, physical acoustics, auditory apparatus, sound perception, host of other topics. Includes 88 figures. "The... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Self-Transformation Through Music (Quest Book) by Joanne Crandall Publisher Comments What is it that makes sound become music? "....sound, in and of itself, has no meaning; it is simply sound. It is descriptive or evocative of nothing more than what is present in the heart and mind of the listener." But for those who are open to it, able... (read more) List Price $7.75 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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You Are Your Instrument: The Definitive Musician's Guide to Practice and Performance by Julie Lyonn Lieberman Publisher Comments This unique guide helps all musicians: open up new avenues of expression through a pain-free, healthy, fluid approach to music-making; overcome performance anxiety, general tension, and muscular injury; and increase learning skills and facilitate more... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $17.71 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Music, Brain, and Ecstacy : How Music Captures Our Imaginations (97 Edition) by Brian Jourdain Publisher Comments 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... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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You Are Your Instrument: The Definitive Musician's Guide to Practice and Performance by Julie Lyo Lieberman Publisher Comments This unique guide helps all musicians: open up new avenues of expression through a pain-free, healthy, fluid approach to music-making; overcome performance anxiety, general tension, and muscular injury; and increase learning skills and facilitate more... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Performance Anxiety: A Workbook for Actors, Singers, Dancers, and Anyone Else Who Performs in Public by Eric Maisel Publisher Comments • The definitive book on overcoming performance anxiety • Helpful for performers of all types: salespeople, executives, teachers anyone who must speak in public • Practical, step-by-step guidance plus spaces for journaling and... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Singing Neanderthals: The Origins of Music, Language, Mind, and Body by Steven Mithen Publisher Comments The propensity to make music is the most mysterious, wonderful, and neglected feature of humankind: this is where Steven Mithen began, drawing together strands from archaeology, anthropology, psychology, neuroscience--and, of course, musicology--to... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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The World is Sound: NADA Brahma: Music and the Landscape of Consciousness by Joachim Ern Berendt Publisher Comments One of Europe's foremost jazz producers takes us through a world of musical traditions and explores the effects of sound on consciousness. ... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Tantra of Sound: How to Enhance Intimacy with Sound by Jonathan Goldman Publisher Comments Sound is the fundamental creative force in the universe, bringing order to chaos, offering health and wellness. Tantra of Sound is a first-of-its-kind book that introduces the emerging field of sound healing into the realm of intimate relationships... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Mozart Effect : Tapping the Power of Music To Heal the Body, Strengthen the Mind, and Unlock the Creative Spirit (01 Edition) by Don Campbell Publisher Comments Anyone who has ever seen a two-year-old start bouncing to a beat knows that music speaks to us on a very deep level. But it took celebrated teacher and music visionary Don Campbell to show us just how deep, with his landmark book The Mozart Effect... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Perfect Wrong Note by William Westney Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-235) and index.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $15.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Musical Life by W A Mathieu Publisher Comments Everyone, according to W.A. Mathieu, is musical by nature—it goes right along with being human. And if you don't believe it, this book will convince you. In a series of interrelated short essays, Mathieu takes the reader on a journey through... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Sweet Anticipation: Music and the Psychology of Expectation (Bradford Books) by David Brian Huron Publisher Comments The psychological theory of expectation that David Huron proposes in Sweet Anticipation grew out of the author's experimental efforts to understand how music evokes emotions. These efforts evolved into a general theory of expectation that will prove... (read more) Your price: $23.00 New - Trade Paper
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