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  • Sound and Action in Music Performance

    Sound and Action in Music Performance addresses how auditory feedback influences the planning and execution of our movements. Focusing specifically on auditory feedback in music, including instrumental and vocal production, the book also gives substantial coverage to its role in speech. Both of these behaviors are the primary means by which people communicate their thoughts and feelings through ... Read more

    $71.19 CAD

  • Psychology of Music

    From Sound to Significance

    From the physical vibrations of sound to the perplexing questions of how music conveys meaning, Psychology of Music: From Sound to Significance takes readers on a wide-ranging exploration of this vibrant multidisciplinary field of study. Now in its third edition, the book emphasizes meaningful links between academic learning and real-world contexts, pointing readers towards intriguing strands of ... Read more

    $122.99 CAD

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  • This Is Your Brain on Music

    The Science of a Human Obsession

    In this groundbreaking union of art and science, rocker-turned-neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin explores the connection between music—its performance, its composition, how we listen to it, why we enjoy it—and the human brain.Taking on prominent thinkers who argue that music is nothing more than an evolutionary accident, Levitin poses that music is fundamental to our species, perhaps even more so ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • I Heard There Was a Secret Chord

    Music as Medicine

    **NATIONAL BESTSELLERNeuroscientist and New York Times bestselling author of This Is Your Brain on Music Daniel J. Levitin reveals how the deep connections between music and the human brain can be harnessed for healing.**Music is perhaps one of humanity’s oldest medicines as well as its most universal: from China to the Ottoman Empire, Europe to Africa and pre-colonial South America, cultures have ... Read more

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  • Guitar Zero

    The Science of Becoming Musical at Any Age

    by Gary Marcus ...
    Gary Marcus challenges the widely held belief that innate talent is necessary to become a skilled musicianJust about every human being knows how to listen to music, but what does it take to make music? Is musicality something we are born with? Or a skill that anyone can develop at any time? If you don't start piano at the age of six, is there any hope? Is skill learning best left to children or ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Learn Faster, Perform Better

    A Musician's Guide to the Neuroscience of Practicing

    by Molly Gebrian ...
    Practicing is an essential part of every musician's life, but we are rarely taught how to practice in the most effective and efficient way. Many of us find ourselves frustrated when we sound good in the practice room only to embarrass ourselves on stage or in front of our teachers. We feel overwhelmed by the amount of music we have to learn, unsure how to balance everything. Playing from memory ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Of Sound Mind

    How Our Brain Constructs a Meaningful Sonic World

    by Nina Kraus ...
    **An NPR “Book of the Day”A “deeply scientific yet often poetic” study that will forever change the way you think about everyday sounds—with fun illustrations that make complex processes easier to understand (Wall Street Journal).How sound leaves a fundamental imprint on who we are . . .**Making sense of sound is one of the hardest jobs we ask our brains to do. In Of Sound Mind, Nina Kraus ... Read more

    $27.19 CAD

  • Psychology for Musicians

    Understanding and Acquiring the Skills

    What is it that accounts for the differences between musical beginners, advanced music makers, and world class performers? Virtually everyone likes music and has the capacity to be musical in some way (despite what some may say about themselves). Yet far fewer people come to be so involved with it that they identify themselves as musicians, and fewer still become musicians of international class. ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Music Language and the Brain

    In the first comprehensive study of the relationship between music and language from the standpoint of cognitive neuroscience Aniruddh D. Patel challenges the widespread belief that music and language are processed independently. Since Plato's time the relationship between music and language has attracted interest and debate from a wide range of thinkers. Recently scientific research on this topic ... Read more

    $62.39 CAD

  • The Power of Music

    Pioneering Discoveries in the New Science of Song

    by Elena Mannes ...
    The award-winning creator of the acclaimed documentary "The MusicInstinct: Science & Song," explores the power of music and itsconnection to the body, the brain, and the world of nature. Onlyrecently has science sought in earnest to understand and explain thisimpact. One remarkable recent study, analyzing the cries of newborns,shows that infants' cries contain common musical intervals, and ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • You Are the Music

    How Music Reveals What it Means to be Human

    'You are the music / While the music lasts' T.S. Eliot, The Four QuartetsDo babies remember music from the womb? Can classical music increase your child's IQ? Is music good for productivity? Can it aid recovery from illness and injury? And what is going on in your brain when Ultravox's 'Vienna', Schoenberg's Verklärte Nacht or Dizzee Rascal's 'Bonkers' transports you back to teenage years?In a ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Music Therapy

    Edited by Jane Edwards ...
    Series series Oxford Library of Psychology
    Music therapy is growing internationally to be one of the leading evidence-based psychosocial allied health professions, meeting needs right across the lifespan. Music therapy is a relational therapy in which the therapist and client collaborate to discover how music can be used to strengthen positive relating skills, attending to the client's immediate and longer term needs through assessment, ... Read more

    $63.99 CAD