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Every Brain Needs Music: The Neuroscience of Making and Listening to Music screenshot
English | 2023 | ISBN: 0231557795 | 289 pages | True PDF | 5 MB
Whenever a person engages with music--when a piano student practices a scale, a jazz saxophonist riffs on a melody, a teenager sobs to a sad song, or a wedding guest gets down on the dance floor--countless neurons are firing. Playing an instrument requires all of the resources of the nervous system, including cognitive, sensory, and motor functions. Composition and improvisation are remarkable demonstrations of the brain's capacity for creativity. Something as seemingly simple as listening to a tune involves mental faculties most of us don't even realize we have.

Larry S. Sherman, a neuroscientist and lifelong musician, and Dennis Plies, a professional musician and teacher, collaborate to show how our brains and music work in harmony. They consider music in all the ways we encounter it--teaching, learning, practicing, listening, composing, improvising, and performing--in terms of neuroscience as well as music pedagogy, showing how the brain functions and even changes in the process.Every Brain Needs Music draws on leading behavioral, cellular, and molecular neuroscience research as well as surveys of more than a hundred musical people. It provides new perspectives on learning to play, teaching, how to practice and perform, the ways we react to music, and why the brain benefits from musical experiences.

Written for both musical and nonmusical people, including newcomers to brain science, this book is a lively and easy-to-read exploration of the neuroscience of music and its significance in our lives.


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"I thought brain just needed oxygen, it doesn't even need much, without it, stop working in 6 minutes."

It's amazing how some neurologists risk their theses, but that's how science should be, creating theses and waiting for someone to show a contrary argument.

If there is a soul inside us, it is more plausible that it is this soul or spirit that drinks and feeds from all this music, but what about all that 'Heavy Metal' stomp, brain needs that? Perhaps yes, because 300 years ago, listening to a Bach toccata on the organ inside a church, is the same as listening in the 20th century, to: 'Iron Maiden', 'Aerosmith', 'Metallica' or 'Angra' .

The subject of music is very subjective, in Amazonian tribes they sing and dance for hours, or they drink a preparation with a hallucinogenic vine mixed with an almost poisonous leaf (Santo Daime), which makes people go into a deep trance standing from night until dawn.

But, it is the cerebellum that will control all the kinesthetic movements that a musician needs to study and play, but not the brain, which activates and controls some emotional functions that the cortex seeks in the right hemisphere and combines with information already learned from the left hemisphere.

But on this book, the authors' proposal seems to happen for the majority, I mean those almost "86 to 92%" of the planet that don't play a single musical note.
With music our mind is more comfortable, or anesthetized with music, it's a fact, maybe at that time listening we stop thinking nonsense, and music starts to serve as a medicine.

But, pay attention, for a matter of statistics related to psychology or behaviorism:
"if a child learns music from childhood, will rarely have depression, will never be a bad person, or will be involved in crimes, will always be turned to knowledge, philosophy, but frustration is clear, frustrated people are never criminals, because frustration is personal, since we never blame others for our failures."

All philosophers of the past studied and discussed music, including 'Friedrich Nietzsche', who forgives Socrates for having written a hymn to Apollo before committing suicide.

"I'm curious to read this book, when literature doesn't grab me in the first 10 pages, I drop it."

It would be good if 92% of humanity learned music, this world would be almost perfect.
That's my thesis.

"The common curse of mankind – folly and ignorance."
(Hamlet - W. Shakespeare)
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Pretty interested into Neuroscience. Nice to find a book that explore how brain "makes" music.

Thank you Sunny!

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