Music and the Mind: Ballentine Books Edition

by Anthony Storr (Author)

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  Paperback
  1994

  $19.14

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  Paperback
  1997

  $3.56

  Why does music have such a powerful effect on our minds and bodies? It is the most mysterious and most tangible of all forms of art. Yet, Anthony Storr believes, music today is a deeply significant experience for a greater number of people than ever before. In this book, he explores why this should be so. Drawing on a wide variety of opinions, Storr argues t hat the patterns of music make sense of our inner experience, giving both structure and coherence to our feelings and emotions. It is because music possesses this capacity to restore our sense of personal wholeness in a culture which requires us to separate rational thought from feelings that many people find it so life-enhancing that it justifies existence. The author also wrote Churchill's Black Dog .

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  Hardcover
  1992

  $3.25

  Why does music have such a powerful effect upon the mind and body? The author of this book believes that music is one example of how humans make sense out of the chaos of sounds and other stimuli which impinge upon us. Music exemplifies the human need for coherence - putting us in touch with our feelings and giving them structure. Anthony Storr is a practising psychiatrist and author of Solitude .

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  Paperback
  1997

  $12.22

  Why does music have such a powerful effect on our minds and bodies? It is the most mysterious and most tangible of all forms of art. Yet, Anthony Storr believes, music today is a deeply significant experience for a greater number of people than ever before. In this book, he explores why this should be so. Drawing on a wide variety of opinions, Storr argues t hat the patterns of music make sense of our inner experience, giving both structure and coherence to our feelings and emotions. It is because music possesses this capacity to restore our sense of personal wholeness in a culture which requires us to separate rational thought from feelings that many people find it so life-enhancing that it justifies existence. The author also wrote Churchill's Black Dog .