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Bad Singer - The Surprising Science of Tone Deafness and How We Hear Music (Paperback)
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Bad Singer - The Surprising Science of Tone Deafness and How We Hear Music (Paperback)
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List price R485
Loot Price R410
Discovery Miles 4 100
You Save R75 (15%)
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In the tradition of Daniel Levitin’s This Is Your Brain on Music
and Oliver Sacks’ Musicophilia, Bad Singer follows the delightful
journey of Tim Falconer as he tries to overcome tone deafness —
and along the way discovers what we’re really hearing when we
listen to music. Tim Falconer, a self-confessed “bad singer,”
always wanted to make music, but soon after he starts singing
lessons, he discovers that he’s part of only 2.5 percent of the
population afflicted with amusia — in other words, he is
scientifically tone-deaf. Bad Singer chronicles his quest to
understand human evolution and music, the brain science behind
tone-deafness, his search for ways to retrain the adult brain, and
his investigation into what we really hear when we listen to music.
In an effort to learn more about his brain disorder, he goes to a
series of labs where the scientists who test him are as fascinated
with him as he is with them. He also sets out to understand why we
love music and deconstructs what we really hear when we listen to
it. And he unlocks the secret that helps explain why music has such
emotional power over us.
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