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Book I Heard There Was A Secret Chord

Download or read book I Heard There Was A Secret Chord written by Daniel J. Levitin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2024-08-27 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neuroscientist 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 developed rich traditions for using sound and rhythm to ease suffering, spur healing, and calm the mind. Despite this history, musical therapy has long been considered the remit of ancient practice and alternative medicine, if not outright quackery and pseudoscience. In the last decade, however, an overwhelming body of scientific evidence has emerged that persuasively argues music can offer profoundly effective treatment for a whole host of ailments, from Alzheimer’s to PTSD, depression, pain, and cognitive injury. It is, in short, one of the most potent and remarkably promising new therapies available today. A work of dazzling ideas, cutting-edge research, and joyful celebration of the human mind, I Heard There Was a Secret Chord explores the critical role music has played in human evolution, illuminating how the story of the human brain is inseparable from the creative enterprise of music that has bound cultures together throughout history. Music insinuates itself into our earliest memories; it is intimately connected to our emotional regulation and cognition; its shared rhythms and sounds are essential to our social behaviors. As neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin demonstrates in this mind-expanding follow-up to This Is Your Brain on Music—which revolutionized our understanding of the neuroscience of song—medical researchers are now finding that these same deep connections can be harnessed to create profound benefits for those both young and old.

Book I Heard There Was a Secret Chord  Music as Medicine

Download or read book I Heard There Was a Secret Chord Music as Medicine written by Daniel J. Levitin and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2024-08-27 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neuroscientist and New York Times best-selling author of This Is Your Brain on Music Daniel J. Levitin reveals the deep connections between music and healing. Music is one of humanity’s oldest medicines. From the Far East to the Ottoman Empire, Europe to Africa and the pre-colonial Americas, many cultures have developed their own rich traditions for using sound and rhythm to ease suffering, promote healing, and calm the mind. In his latest work, neuroscientist and New York Times best-selling author Daniel J. Levitin (This Is Your Brain on Music) explores the curative powers of music, showing us how and why it is one of the most potent therapies today. He brings together, for the first time, the results of numerous studies on music and the brain, demonstrating how music can contribute to the treatment of a host of ailments, from neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s, to cognitive injury, depression, and pain. Levitin is not your typical scientist—he is also an award-winning musician and composer, and through lively interviews with some of today’s most celebrated musicians, from Sting to Kent Nagano and Mari Kodama, he shares their observations as to why music might be an effective therapy, in addition to plumbing scientific case studies, music theory, and music history. The result is a work of dazzling ideas, cutting-edge research, and jubilant celebration. I Heard There Was a Secret Chord highlights the critical role music has played in human biology, illuminating the neuroscience of music and its profound benefits for those both young and old.

Book Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library  1911 1971

Download or read book Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library 1911 1971 written by New York Public Library. Research Libraries and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Outre Mer

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  • Author : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • Publisher : Legare Street Press
  • Release : 2023-07-18
  • ISBN : 9781020081422
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Outre Mer written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join Longfellow on a journey beyond the sea in this captivating travelogue. From Spain to Italy to the Middle East, Longfellow takes readers on a journey through the sights, sounds, and cultures of Europe and the Near East, offering a unique perspective on these exotic destinations. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book Outre mer

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  • Author : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1835
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 496 pages

Download or read book Outre mer written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Alphabetic Catalogue of the English Books in the Circulating Department of the Cleveland Public Library  Authors  Titles and Subjects

Download or read book Alphabetic Catalogue of the English Books in the Circulating Department of the Cleveland Public Library Authors Titles and Subjects written by Cleveland Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 1434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Outre mer

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  • Author : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • Publisher : Legare Street Press
  • Release : 2023-07-18
  • ISBN : 9781019865408
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Outre mer written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic travelogue of the author's journey through Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa during the mid-1800s. Longfellow captures the essence of each place he visits with vivid descriptions of landscapes, architecture, and people. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in travel writing and poetic prose. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book Outre Mer  A Pilgrimage Beyond the Sea  Volume I

Download or read book Outre Mer A Pilgrimage Beyond the Sea Volume I written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is one of Longfellow's lesser-known works, but it is no less important or engaging than his more famous poems. 'Outre-Mer' is a travelogue/memoir that documents Longfellow's trip to Europe and the Middle East in 1835-36. Full of rich historical and cultural detail, it provides a fascinating snapshot of these regions at a pivotal moment in their histories. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book Outre Mer

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  • Author : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • Publisher : Hansebooks
  • Release : 2017-08-07
  • ISBN : 9783337289621
  • Pages : 388 pages

Download or read book Outre Mer written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and published by Hansebooks. This book was released on 2017-08-07 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outre-Mer - A pilgrimage beyond the sea. Vol. 4 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1894. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

Book From Puritanism to Postmodernism

Download or read book From Puritanism to Postmodernism written by Richard Ruland and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Widely acknowledged as a contemporary classic that has introduced thousands of readers to American literature, From Puritanism to Postmodernism: A History of American Literature brilliantly charts the fascinating story of American literature from the Puritan legacy to the advent of postmodernism. From realism and romanticism to modernism and postmodernism it examines and reflects on the work of a rich panoply of writers, including Poe, Melville, Fitzgerald, Pound, Wallace Stevens, Gwendolyn Brooks and Thomas Pynchon. Characterised throughout by a vibrant and engaging style it is a superb introduction to American literature, placing it thoughtfully in its rich social, ideological and historical context. A tour de force of both literary and historical writing, this Routledge Classics edition includes a new preface by co-author Richard Ruland, a new foreword by Linda Wagner-Martin and a fascinating interview with Richard Ruland, in which he reflects on the nature of American fiction and his collaboration with Malclolm Bradbury. It is published here for the first time.

Book Culture and Imperialism

Download or read book Culture and Imperialism written by Edward W. Said and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1994-05-31 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A landmark work from the author of Orientalism that explores the long-overlooked connections between the Western imperial endeavor and the culture that both reflected and reinforced it. "Grandly conceived . . . urgently written and urgently needed. . . . No one studying the relations between the metropolitan West and the decolonizing world can ignore Mr. Said's work.' --The New York Times Book Review In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as the Western powers built empires that stretched from Australia to the West Indies, Western artists created masterpieces ranging from Mansfield Park to Heart of Darkness and Aida. Yet most cultural critics continue to see these phenomena as separate. Edward Said looks at these works alongside those of such writers as W. B. Yeats, Chinua Achebe, and Salman Rushdie to show how subject peoples produced their own vigorous cultures of opposition and resistance. Vast in scope and stunning in its erudition, Culture and Imperialism reopens the dialogue between literature and the life of its time.

Book The World  the Text  and the Critic

Download or read book The World the Text and the Critic written by Edward W. Said and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Said demonstrates that critical discourse has been strengthened by the writings of Derrida and Foucault and by influences like Marxism, structuralism, linguistics, and psychoanalysis. But, he argues, these forces have compelled literature to meet the requirements of a theory or system, ignoring complex affiliations binding the texts to the world.

Book Outre mer

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  • Author : Paul Bourget
  • Publisher : New-York: C. Scribner's Sons
  • Release : 1895
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 436 pages

Download or read book Outre mer written by Paul Bourget and published by New-York: C. Scribner's Sons. This book was released on 1895 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book High   Low

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  • Author : Kirk Varnedoe
  • Publisher : ABRAMS
  • Release : 1990
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 468 pages

Download or read book High Low written by Kirk Varnedoe and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 1990 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readins in high & low

Book The Symbolist Movement in Literature

Download or read book The Symbolist Movement in Literature written by Arthur Symons and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-08-14 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Symbolist Movement in Literature by Arthur Symons

Book Italy and English Literature 1764   1930

Download or read book Italy and English Literature 1764 1930 written by Kenneth Churchill and published by Springer. This book was released on 1980-06-18 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: