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Music, the Brain and Ecstasy - How Music Captures Our Imagination (Paperback): Robert Jourdain Music, the Brain and Ecstasy - How Music Captures Our Imagination (Paperback)
Robert Jourdain
R466 R402 Discovery Miles 4 020 Save R64 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

What makes a distant oboe's wail beautiful? Why do some kinds of music lift us to ecstasy, but not others? How can music make sense to an ear and brain evolved for detecting the approaching lion or tracking the unsuspecting gazelle? Lyrically interweaving discoveries from science, psychology, music theory, paleontology, and philosophy, Robert Jourdian brilliantly examines why music speaks to us in ways that words cannot, and why we form such powerful connections to it. In clear, understandable language, Jourdian expertly guides the reader through a continuum of musical experience: sound, tone, melody, harmony, rhythm, composition, performance, listening, understanding--and finally to ecstasy. Along the way, a fascinating cast of characters brings Jourdian's narrative to vivid life: "idiots savants" who absorb whole pieces on a single hearing, composers who hallucinate entire compositions, a psychic who claims to take dictation from long-dead composers, and victims of brain damage who can move only when they hear music. Here is a book that will entertain, inform, and stimulate everyone who loves music--and make them think about their favorite song in startling new ways.What makes a distant oboes wail beautiful? Why do some kinds of music lift us to ecstasy, but not others? How can music make sense to an ear and brain evolved for detecting the approaching lion or tracking the unsuspecting gazelle? Lyrically interweaving discoveries from science, psychology, music theory, paleontology, and philosophy, Robert Jourdian brilliantly examines why music speaks to us in ways that words cannot, and why we form such powerful connections to it.

In clear, understandable language, Jourdian expertly guides the reader through a continuum of musical experience: sound, tone, melody, harmony, rhythm, composition, performance, listening, understanding--and finally to ecstasy. Along the way, a fascinating cast of characters brings Jourdians narrative to vivid life: idiots savants who absorb whole pieces on a single hearing, composers who hallucinate entire compositions, a psychic who claims to take dictation from long-dead composers, and victims of brain damage who can move only when they hear music. Here is a book that will entertain, inform, and stimulate everyone who loves music--and make them think about their favorite song in startling new ways.

Land Legislation and Settlement in New Zealand. (Paperback): William Robert Jourdain Land Legislation and Settlement in New Zealand. (Paperback)
William Robert Jourdain
R755 Discovery Miles 7 550 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Making of Modern Law: Foreign, Comparative and International Law, 1600-1926, brings together foreign, comparative, and international titles in a single resource. Its International Law component features works of some of the great legal theorists, including Gentili, Grotius, Selden, Zouche, Pufendorf, Bijnkershoek, Wolff, Vattel, Martens, Mackintosh, Wheaton, among others. The materials in this archive are drawn from three world-class American law libraries: the Yale Law Library, the George Washington University Law Library, and the Columbia Law Library.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages.+++++++++++++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: +++++++++++++++Yale Law LibraryLP3Y200170019250101The Making of Modern Law: Foreign, Comparative, and International Law, 1600-1926At head of title: Department of Lands and Survey, New Zealand. Title on spine: History of land legislation and settlement in New Zealand. Includes index. "Published by direction of the Hon. A.D. McLeod, minister of lands."Wellington: W. A. G. Skinner, 1925248 p., 6] leaves of plates: ports.; 25 cmNew Zealand

Das wohltemperierte Gehirn - Wie Musik im Kopf entsteht und wirkt (German, Paperback, 1. Aufl. 2001. Nachdruck 2009): Robert... Das wohltemperierte Gehirn - Wie Musik im Kopf entsteht und wirkt (German, Paperback, 1. Aufl. 2001. Nachdruck 2009)
Robert Jourdain
R855 Discovery Miles 8 550 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

"Fur kurze Momente lasst uns Musik uber unsere wirkliche Grosse hinauswachsen und die Welt geordneter erscheinen, als sie in Wahrheit ist. Wir reagieren nicht nur auf die Schonheit der anhaltenden tiefen Zusammenhange, die sich uns eroffnen, sondern auch auf die Tatsache, dass wir sie wahrnehmen. In dem Masse, wie unsere Gehirne hochschalten, fuhlen wir, wie sich unser Dasein erweitert, und wir erkennen, dass wir mehr zu sein vermogen, als wir normalerweise sind, und dass die Welt mehr ist, als sie zu sein scheint. Das ist Grund genug fur Ekstase." Mit diesen Worten charakterisiert Robert Jourdain, Komponist, Journalist und Wissenschaftler, die enorme Wirkung, die Musik auf uns haben kann, wenn sie uns im Innersten beruhrt. Wie aber konnen Folgen von Luftschwingungen solche Effekte hervorrufen? Wie entstehen aus Tonen Harmonien, wie aus Harmoniefolgen und Rhythmen Kompositionen? Und wie setzt unser Gehirn die eintreffenden Schallwellen um, so dass wir Musik nicht nur horen, sondern verstehen und empfinden konnen? Dieses faszinierende Buch nimmt den Leser mit auf eine Expedition, die ihn von der Physik uber die Biologie bis hin zur Psychologie der Musik fuhrt und dabei auf allen Ebenen hochinteressante musikwissenschaftliche Kenntnisse vermittelt. Jourdain wahlt seine Beispiele aus verschiedenen Kulturen und erlautert dabei auch, warum die Musik anderer Lander fur das eigene Ohr oft so ungewohnt oder gar abschreckend klingt. Er beschreibt ferner, wie sich Musik und das Musikschaffen von Komponisten im Laufe der Geschichte oftmals gewandelt haben, wie besondere musikalische Fahigkeiten und das absolute Gehor zu erklaren sind und ob musikalische Genies charakteristische Gehirnstrukturen auf

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