This Is Your Brain on Music
LC Class ML3830 | | |
| Followed by | The World in Six Songs | |
|---|---|---|
This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession is a
Dutton Penguin in the U.S. and Canada in 2006, and updated and released in paperback by Plume/Penguin in 2007. It has been translated into 18 languages and spent more than a year on The New York Times, The Globe and Mail, and other bestseller lists, and sold more than one million copies.[1]
Overview
The aim of This Is Your Brain on Music was to make recent findings in neuroscience of music accessible to the educated layperson.[2] Characteristics and theoretical parameters of music are explained alongside scientific findings about how the brain interprets and processes these characteristics.[3] The neuroanatomy of musical expectation, emotion, listening and performance is discussed.
This Is Your Brain on Music describes the components of music, such as timbre, rhythm, pitch, and harmonyGeoffrey Miller and others.[7]
This Is Your Brain on Music was a finalist for the
Yo Yo Ma, Jarvis Cocker, Daniel Barenboim, Oliver Sacks and others. In 2009, Harvard University announced This Is Your Brain on Music would be required reading in its Freshman Core Program in General Education.[9] In 2011–2012, the Physics Department at the California Institute of Technology
adopted it as a textbook.
Current editions
English
- This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession. New York: Plume (Penguin), 2007, paperback, ISBN 978-0-452-28852-2.
- This Is Your Brain on Music: Understanding a Human Obsession. London: Grove/Atlantic, 2007, hardcover, ISBN 978-1-84354-715-0
- This Is Your Brain on Music: Understanding a Human Obsession. London: Grove/Atlantic, 2008, paperback, ISBN 978-1-84354-716-7
Other languages
- Ons muzikale brein. Altas Contact, Amsterdam, 2013, ISBN 9789045024561, vertaling Robert Vernooy, paperback 320 p.
- De la note au cerveau. Les Éditions de l'Homme/Sogides, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 2010, ISBN 978-2-7619-2679-9
- De la note au cerveau. France: Editions Heloise d'Ormesson, 2010. ISBN 2-35087-129-0
- Der Musik-Instinkt: Die Wissenschaft einer menschlichen Leidenschaft. Heidelberg, Germany: Spektrum, 2009, ISBN 978-3-8274-2078-7
- Fatti di musica: La scienza di un'ossessione umana. 2008, Torino, Italy: Codice, 2008, paperback, ISBN 978-88-7578-098-2
- Musiikki ja aivot: Ihmisen erään pakkomielteen tiedettä. (Translated into Finnish by Timo Paukku.) Helsinki: Terra Cognita 2010. ISBN 978-952-5697-22-3
- This Is Your Brain on Music. (Portuguese). Brazil: Distribuidora Record, 2009.
- This Is Your Brain on Music. Croatia: Vukovic & Runjic.
- This Is Your Brain on Music. Greece: Psihopolis, due 2010.
- This Is Your Brain on Music. Japan: Hakuyosha Publishing, due 2010.
- This Is Your Brain on Music. Romania: SC Humanitas, due 2010.
- This Is Your Brain on Music. Turkey: Pegasus Yayincilik, 2010.
- Tu cerebro y la musica. Spain: RBA Libros. ISBN 978-84-9867-336-4, 2008.
- Uma Paixão Humana: O seu Cérebro e a Música. Lisbon, Portugal: EditorialBizâncio, 2007, paperback, ISBN 978-972-53-0363-4
- 뇌의 왈츠 - 세상에서 가장 아름다운 강박 (This Is Your Brain on Music.) Korea: Mati. ISBN 978-89-92053-16-7, 2008.
- Ова е вашиотмозок за музика (This Is Your Brain on Music.) Macedonia: Kosta Abras Ad Ohrid, 2009. ISBN 978-9989-843-48-8
References
- ^ Nielsen Bookscan
- ^ Huron, D. (2006). "Exploring How Music Works Its Wonders". Cerebrum.
- ^ a b Sullivan, J. (2006, August 20). "He's rocking the world of neuroscience". The Boston Globe.
- ^ a b c Bortz, F. (2006, September 3). "The science of music, the purpose of music". The Seattle Times, p. E&A J9.
- ^ a b Rothenberg, D. (2006, July 29). "Music on your mind". The Globe and Mail, pp. D8-D9.
- ^ Fenton, J. (2006, September 29). "The food of love". The Guardian, Features & Review p. 9.
- ^ (2006, August 7). Publishers Weekly.
- ^ (2008, September 21). "Pick of the paperbacks 2008". The Guardian.
- ^ "FAS Information for Instructors 2006-2007". Archived from the original on 2006-09-03. Retrieved 2009-12-30.