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Author | : Frank R. Wilson |
Publisher | : Viking Adult |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
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Publishers Weekly: Convinced that everyone has an inborn ability to make music (a ''biological guarantee of musicianship''), California neurologist Wilson, who came late to piano playing, here presents a picture of the brain and muscular system to help nonmusicians to understand that the human body is a ''natural learner.'' He describes, in admirably untechnical language, the biology of rhythm and tempo, how we hear and see, the intricacies of musical notation; he tells what it's like to perform in public. Drawing comparisons between music-making and athletic skills, Wilson also tries to clarify such mysteries as tone deafness, perfect pitch, sight reading, memorization and ̀̀pumping ivory
Author | : Frank R. Wilson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Frank R. Wilson |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780394753546 |
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This blend of anecdote and scientific analysis is an absorbing study of our innate musical abilities, for both the adult beginner and the serious listener. Anyone who is either a professional or an amateur musician should find instruction and support in this book.
Author | : Frank R. Wilson |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 1999-09-14 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0679740473 |
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"A startling argument . . . provocative . . . absorbing." --The Boston Globe "Ambitious . . . arresting . . . celebrates the importance of hands to our lives today as well as to the history of our species." --The New York Times Book Review The human hand is a miracle of biomechanics, one of the most remarkable adaptations in the history of evolution. The hands of a concert pianist can elicit glorious sound and stir emotion; those of a surgeon can perform the most delicate operations; those of a rock climber allow him to scale a vertical mountain wall. Neurologist Frank R. Wilson makes the striking claim that it is because of the unique structure of the hand and its evolution in cooperation with the brain that Homo sapiens became the most intelligent, preeminent animal on the earth. In this fascinating book, Wilson moves from a discussion of the hand's evolution--and how its intimate communication with the brain affects such areas as neurology, psychology, and linguistics--to provocative new ideas about human creativity and how best to nurture it. Like Oliver Sacks and Stephen Jay Gould, Wilson handles a daunting range of scientific knowledge with a surprising deftness and a profound curiosity about human possibility. Provocative, illuminating, and delightful to read, The Hand encourages us to think in new ways about one of our most taken-for-granted assets. "A mark of the book's excellence [is that] it makes the reader aware of the wonder in trivial, everyday acts, and reveals the complexity behind the simplest manipulation." --The Washington Post
Author | : Andrew Durkin |
Publisher | : Pantheon |
Total Pages | : 538 |
Release | : 2014-11-18 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0307911764 |
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Decomposition is a bracing, revisionary, and provocative inquiry into music—from Beethoven to Duke Ellington, from Conlon Nancarrow to Evelyn Glennie—as a personal and cultural experience: how it is composed, how it is idiosyncratically perceived by critics and reviewers, and why we listen to it the way we do. Andrew Durkin, best known as the leader of the West Coast–based Industrial Jazz Group, is singular for his insistence on asking tough questions about the complexity of our presumptions about music and about listening, especially in the digital age. In this winning and lucid study he explodes the age-old concept of musical composition as the work of individual genius, arguing instead that in both its composition and reception music is fundamentally a collaborative enterprise that comes into being only through mediation. Drawing on a rich variety of examples—Big Jay McNeely’s “Deacon’s Hop,” Biz Markie’s “Alone Again,” George Antheil’s Ballet Mécanique, Frank Zappa’s “While You Were Art,” and Pauline Oliveros’s “Tuning Meditation,” to name only a few—Durkin makes clear that our appreciation of any piece of music is always informed by neuroscientific, psychological, technological, and cultural factors. How we listen to music, he maintains, might have as much power to change it as music might have to change how we listen.
Author | : University of California, San Francisco |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 866 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Hospitals |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Edward S. Lisk |
Publisher | : Meredith Music |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 2007-01-01 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1574635271 |
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(Meredith Music Resource). Conducting-listening skills, harmonic and melodic content, ensemble sonority and expressive conducting are only a few of the insightful topics included in Ed Lisk's latest publication. The complexities of instrumental music as related to Howard Gardner's Theories of Multiple Intelligences are thoroughly discussed and provide an overwhelming foundation for the support of music in the schools. From philosophy to practicality, this book has it all!
Author | : Martha Kent |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2013-08-22 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 1136484256 |
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How are people and communities able to prevail despite challenge? What helps them bounce back from adversity and even grow in knowledge and understanding? And can this resilience be taught? During the past decade, exciting scientific advances have shed light on how resilience operates from neurons to neighborhoods. In The Resilience Handbook, experts in the science of resilience draw on human and animal research to describe the process of resilience and follow its course as it unfolds both within individuals and in social networks. Contributors also highlight the promise of new interventions that apply what we know about resilience processes to bolster positive health, and raise some of the pressing questions and issues for the field as it matures. This handbook is designed to be used by students as an invitation to a burgeoning field; by researchers, as a framework for advancing theories, hypotheses, and empirical tests of resilience functions; and by clinicians, as a comprehensive and up-to-the-minute integration of theory and practice.
Author | : University of Michigan. School of Music |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 966 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Concert programs |
ISBN | : |
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Publisher | : Hal Leonard Corporation |
Total Pages | : 134 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780962430855 |
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(Meredith Music Resource). With a foreword by Mark Camphouse, Intangibles...deals with the instructional techniques of teaching expression, ensemble interpretation, characteristic performance, musical identity, and the decision making process surrounding the subtle details of artistic response.