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Glassunion

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1. To anyone with an interest in music. You should read these two books...

Reply to Scuba (Original post)

Thu Jan 26, 2012, 01:36 PM

Jan 2012

This is Your Brain on Music by Daniel J. Levitin - This book was fantastic. He explains complex brain functions in ways all of us can understand. He started his career in music and ended up a cognitive neuroscientist. Anyone who can correlate Judy Garland and Jimmy Hendrix in the same sentence is ok in my book.

Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks - Another fantastic book that goes over some neurological conditions surrounding music. It is full of amazing stories of some patients. On in particular where an individual who did not really like music, gets struck by lightning at the age of 42 and becomes an amazing pianist.

You have to read these.

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Applied Neuroscience, the Six-String Method [View all] Scuba Jan 2012 OP

To anyone with an interest in music. You should read these two books... Glassunion Jan 2012 #1

I have not read them. Yet. Thanks for the recommendations! Scuba Jan 2012 #2