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How Music Works
Listening to music is not just auditory and emotional, it is motoric as well: “We listen to music with our muscles,” as Nietzsche wrote. We keep time to music,
Oliver Sacks • Musicophilia
But for virtually all of us, music has great power, whether or not we seek it out or think of ourselves as particularly “musical.”
Oliver Sacks • Musicophilia
By the way, this book could perhaps be described as the result of my own personal quest. For many years now, I have built my research and writing on a very simple statement of purpose—which I repeat, almost as a mantra, on every possible occasion, in print or public lectures: Music is a source of enchantment and a catalyst in human life , and my vo... See more
Ted Gioia • Music to Raise the Dead: The Secret Origins of Musicology
