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Comparing Notes : How We Make Sense of Music by Ockelford, Adam is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Comparing Notes : How We Make Sense of Music about?
Comparing Notes explores what music is, why all of us are musical, and how abstract patterns of sound that might not appear to mean anything can, in fact, be meaningful. From pitch and rhythm to dynamics and timbre, the author shows how all the elements of music cohere through the principle of imitation to create an abstract narrative in sound that we instinctively grasp, whether listening to Bach or the Beatles.
Who reads Comparing Notes : How We Make Sense of Music?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Ockelford, Adam
- Publisher
- Pegasus Books
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781681777443
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Philosophy, History, Music
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