Philip Ball provides the first comprehensive, accessible survey of what is known - and what is still unknown - about how music works and why it is indispensible to humanity.
Philip Ball writes regularly in the scientific and popular media and worked for many years as an editor for physical sciences at Nature. His books cover a wide range of scientific and cultural phenomena, and include Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads To Another (winner of the 2005 Aventis Prize for Science Books), The Music Instinct, Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything, Serving The Reich: The Struggle for the Soul of Science Under Hitler and Invisible: The history of the Unseen from Plato to Particle Physics.
A truly fascinating and eye-opening account of a phenomenon so
commonplace we barely think about it, yet one which is also
mind-bogglingly complicated. Once you've read The Music Instinct,
you'll never listed to music the same way again
*Independent*
Remarkable capacity to use words to open our ears
*Sunday Telegraph, Book of the Week*
I defy anyone to read this book without coming away better informed
about why music affects us in such a profound way... His passion
for music is evident on every page, and his enthusiasms are
infectious.
*The Sunday Times*
If you try listening to music after reading this book, you'll
probably hear it differently - more knowingly, even
*Telegraph*
This book surveys current thinking and tells you why music
rocks
*Times*
A truly fascinating and eye-opening account of a phenomenon
so commonplace we barely think about it, yet one which is also
mind-bogglingly complicated. Once you've read The Music
Instinct, you'll never listed to music the same way
again -- Doug Johnstone * Independent *
Remarkable capacity to use words to open our ears -- Damian
Thompson * Sunday Telegraph, Book of the Week *
I defy anyone to read this book without coming away better informed
about why music affects us in such a profound way... His passion
for music is evident on every page, and his enthusiasms are
infectious. -- Bee Wilson * The Sunday Times *
If you try listening to music after reading this book, you'll
probably hear it differently - more knowingly, even -- Tom Payne *
Telegraph *
This book surveys current thinking and tells you why music rocks --
rev'd Iain Finlayson * Times *
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