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How Music Works: The Science and Psychology of Beautiful Sounds, from Beethoven to the Beatles and Beyond - John Powell
How Music Works: The Science and Psychology of Beautiful Sounds, from Beethoven to the Beatles and Beyond
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Format: kindle
ASIN: B00BHGQXHU
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Pages no: 272
Edition language: English
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hpagano
hpagano rated it
5.0 How Music Works: The Science and Psychology of Beautiful Sounds, from Beethoven to the Beatles and Beyond
A lucid and engaging explanation of how the physics of sound production influence music theory. I attended music conservatory and still gained a much better understanding of how music works from reading this book-in fact I really wish I'd had it for an intro to my freshman studies! Powell is very ...
llanito
llanito rated it
4.0 How Music Works: A listener's guide to harmony, keys, broken chords, perfect pitch and the secrets of a good tune
Finally I figured out equal temperament, scales and keys!!! And about time too.
MEslaymaker
MEslaymaker rated it
A fun book and helpful to myself, a nonmusician who deeply appreciates music. It puts some basics in perspective, such as: "It is movement that infuses a song with life. It's the movement from key to key which provides a change in mood. The keys themselves don't have moods of their own." And a good ...
MEslaymaker
MEslaymaker rated it
A fun book and helpful to myself, a nonmusician who deeply appreciates music. It puts some basics in perspective, such as: "It is movement that infuses a song with life. It's the movement from key to key which provides a change in mood. The keys themselves don't have moods of their own." And a good ...
BookHounds
BookHounds rated it
This book is so appealing on so many different levels. A lot of times, any book that deals with technical subjects become dry and boring. How Music Works is easy to read and very enjoyable. There is so much wonderful snarky, English humor that you don't even realize you are learning something. E...
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