Levitin book This is Your Brain on Music

Subject: RE: Levitin book This is Your Brain on Music
From: Mrrzy
Date: 16 Dec 21 - 05:49 PM

Ayup!

Subject: RE: Levitin book This is Your Brain on Music
From: Helen
Date: 16 Dec 21 - 12:59 AM

Thanks Mrrzy, that was an interesting article. Just makes me feel bad because I don't practise my music enough, but my friends and I are getting together once a week lately to make up for lost time in the COVID lockdowns, so maybe that counts. A couple of hours a week equals a bit of practice every day, doesn't it? Maybe?

Subject: RE: Levitin book This is Your Brain on Music
From: Helen
Date: 15 Dec 21 - 11:21 PM

So this is Your Brain on the Blickifier?

LOL

Subject: RE: Levitin book This is Your Brain on Music
From: Mrrzy
Date: 15 Dec 21 - 10:16 PM

Thhis isn't about the book but it is brain and music so I thought this would be the best place...

Mrrzy makes a blicky, Take II.

Subject: RE: Levitin book This is Your Brain on Music
From: Mrrzy
Date: 15 Dec 21 - 10:10 PM

Aw man lemme find it again.

And I even looked at the preview!

Subject: RE: Levitin book This is Your Brain on Music
From: Helen
Date: 15 Dec 21 - 12:51 PM

Blicky-itis, Mrrzy? LOL

Can you post it again, please?

About 20 or 30 years ago I watched a TV show which I think was called What is Music? I'm fairly certain that Daniel Levitin was one of the key people explaining the influence of music on people and their lives. It was brilliant.

Subject: RE: Levitin book This is Your Brain on Music
From: Mrrzy
Date: 15 Dec 21 - 10:49 AM

And new news on brain and music: playing an instrument, no matter how badly:

Blicky.

Subject: RE: Levitin book This is Your Brain on Music
From: Mrrzy
Date: 06 Aug 06 - 09:53 PM

Fascinating show!

Subject: RE: Levitin book This is Your Brain on Music
From: GUEST,DrWord
Date: 04 Aug 06 - 01:26 PM

oops
just wanted 2 thank u, SRS
I'm listening 2 the interview right now
thanks again

dennis

www.mts.net/~oakacorn

Subject: RE: Levitin book This is Your Brain on Music
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 04 Aug 06 - 11:21 AM

Thanks for posting this. I've put in a request for the book at my public library.

Subject: RE: Levitin book This is Your Brain on Music
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 04 Aug 06 - 06:54 AM

Yes, I heard most of the show; (my daughter came storming in from her errands and said, "Mom! Turn on NPR right now!!")

Gonna get me the book, too!

Subject: RE: Levitin book This is Your Brain on Music
From: katlaughing
Date: 04 Aug 06 - 12:04 AM

Kewl! Thanks for the info and link!

Subject: RE: Levitin book This is Your Brain on Music
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 03 Aug 06 - 11:57 PM

They did a lot of illustrations of the points he was discussing, so this program isn't just a long book review, it is a lucid presentation of examples. For example, they played three versions of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata at one point. One was very passionate, one was trimmed down to a metronome quality. The third had about 3/4 of the emotional elements layered back in. I could hear the differences because I'd played the piece for years. I thought the third version sounded best--the first was a little too over the top. But the point was that most people can tell the difference between the first and second versions because of hard-wiring in humans. The distinction between the first and third versions is more subtle and tends to be noticed by people with more experience with the music. It was a very effective discussion of how humans respond to music. Also, someone called in with a question about the song stuck in one's head. Levitin correctly identified this as an "ear worm" (all Mudcatter's know that one!) and discussed strategies for getting it out of your head. :)

SRS

Subject: RE: Levitin book This is Your Brain on Music
From: Barry Finn
Date: 03 Aug 06 - 11:58 AM

Sounds interesting, Thanks

Barry

Subject: Levitin book This is Your Brain on Music
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 03 Aug 06 - 11:56 AM

Today's Diane Rehm show (Aug. 3, 2006) has been marvelous in both hours. The first was talking to Michael Bronner about the NORAD tapes from Sept. 11, 2001, and I was ready to write a note to the program congratulating them on a powerful hour. And then hour two started, and it is just as marvelous.

11:00Daniel Levitin: "This Is Your Brain On Music" (Dutton)
Guest host: Susan Page

Music is part of every known human society, and scientists want to know why. A musician and neuroscientist describes new research on the brain and why he believes music might be at the heart of human nature itself.
Guests
Daniel Levitin, head of the Laboratory for Musical Perception, Cognition, and Expertise at McGill University, where he holds the Bell Chair in the psychology of electronic communication.

The research he describes is fascinating, and I'm sure of particular interest to Mudcatters. They'll have links up to these programs in the archives in a couple of hours.



SRS