Psychology of Music
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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
by Oliver Sacks  
Powells.com Staff Pick Musicophilia is a fascinating look at music and its effects on our brains. Who but Oliver Sacks could make such a compulsively readable book? Recommended by Beth, Powells.com...
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The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth through Music
by Victor L. Wooten Publisher Comments From Grammy-winning musical icon and legendary bassist Victor L. Wooten comes The Music Lesson, the story of a struggling young musician who wanted music to be his life, and who wanted his life to be great. Then, from nowhere it seemed, a teacher arrived....
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The Mozart Effect: Tapping the Power of Music to Heal the Body, Strengthen the Mind, and Unlock the Creative Spirit
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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The Inner Game of Music
by Barry Green Publisher Comments By the best-selling co-author of Inner Tennis, here's a book designed to help musicians overcome obstacles, help improve concentration, and reduce nervousness, allowing them to reach new levels of performing excellence and musical artistry....
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Tantra of Sound: How to Enhance Intimacy with Sound
by Jonathan Goldman Synopsis "Tantra of Sound is a first-of-its-kind book that introduces the emerging field of sound healing into the realm of intimate relationships. The Goldmans emphasize the science of using sound healing for relationships and personal growth as well as...
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A Blessing of Music
by Welleran Poltarnees Synopsis Welleran Poltarnees here praise the beauty of music, and its power over our lives. He speaks of its healing and ordering qualities, its usefulness in transcending the limitations of existence, and its ability to both calm and energize us. He ascribes the...
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Sound Healing: Ease Chronic Pain
by Howard Richman Publisher Comments A book and cd package Modern medicine in America has finally embraced what alternative healers have known for centuries: Music and guided imagery have a profound healing power. The first volume of the groundbreaking series Sound Healing combines a...
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The Secret Power of Music
by David Tame Publisher Comments This study of the hidden side of music and its subtle effects is oneof the most detailed books ever written on the subject....
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Music Physician for Times to Come, Second Edition
by Don Campbell Synopsis Here pioneering musicians, doctors, therapists, and teachers in diverse spiritual traditions explore new paradigms....
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Finding Your Voice
by Carolyn Sloan Synopsis Holistic in its philosophy, "Finding Your Voice" offers easy-to-follow exercises for such preparatory measures as breathing and diction; it also ventures to teach readers to use singing as a metaphor for facing other challenges in their lives...
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Opera: The Art of Dying
by Linda Hutcheon Publisher Comments Our modern narratives of science and technology can only go so far in teaching us about the death that we must all finally face. Can an act of the imagination, in the form of opera, take us the rest of the way? Might opera, an art form steeped in death...
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Psychology for Musicians: Understanding and Acquiring the Skills
by Andreas C Lehmann Publisher Comments What is it that accounts for the differences between musical beginners, advanced music makers, and world class performers? Virtually everyone likes music and has the capacity to be musical in some way (despite what some may say about themselves). Yet far...
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Music, the Brain, and Ecstasy: How Music Captures Our Imagination
by Robert 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...
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The Secret Lore of Music: The Hidden Power of Orpheus
by Fabre Dolivet Publisher Comments Hermeticist Fabre d'Olivet's classic study of music as sacred art and its profound effects on the soul. Ever since Pythagoras demonstrated the mathematical basis of music and its profound effect on the soul, the Western esoteric tradition has been deeply...
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Read the Music: Essays on Sound
by Beth Winegarner Synopsis Music touches everything. It pervades our memory, accompanies us through emotion and history, and becomes the lens through which we understand culture or politics. The essays in "Read the Music" are just as wide-ranging. The book kicks off with a ride...
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Introduction to the Psychology of Music
by Geza Revesz Publisher Comments Comprehensive introduction looks at physical and physiological bases of sound, hearing, and tone; elements of musical tone; theory of intervals; consonance and dissonance; the sense of pitch; musical talent; development and inheritance of musical ability;...
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