Levitin Daniel

This is Your Brain on Music

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  • kvsmirnivhas quoted6 years ago
    Music listening, performance, and composition engage nearly every area of the brain that we have so far identified, and involve nearly every neural subsystem.
  • Pame Cedeñohas quoted7 years ago
    The Sesotho verb for singing (ho bina), as in many of the world’s languages, also means to dance; there is no distinction, since it is assumed that singing involves bodily movement.
  • Hendro Jatihas quoted9 years ago
    memory is not particularly accurate
  • Юлия Ёлшинаhas quoted3 years ago
    Like Einstein, Newton was a very poor student, and his teachers often complained of his inattentiveness. Ultimately, Newton was kicked out of school.)
  • Юлия Ёлшинаhas quoted3 years ago
    Heinrich Hertz, the German theoretical physicist who was the first to transmit radio waves (a dyed-in-the-wool theoretician, when asked what practical use radio waves might have, he reportedly shrugged, “None”)
  • Юлия Ёлшинаhas quoted3 years ago
    The official definition of the Acoustical Society of America is that timbre is everything about a sound that is not loudness or pitch. So much for scientific precision!
  • Юлия Ёлшинаhas quoted3 years ago
    Knowing precisely when to hit the next note, and allowing the listener time to anticipate it, is a hallmark of Davis’s genius. This is particularly apparent in his album Kind of Blue.
  • Юлия Ёлшинаhas quoted3 years ago
    higher-order concepts such as meter, key, melody, and harmony.
  • Юлия Ёлшинаhas quoted3 years ago
    In the Beach Boys’ song “Barbara Ann,” the first seven notes are all sung on the same pitch
  • Юлия Ёлшинаhas quoted3 years ago
    the “Alphabet Song” (the same as “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star”)
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