Tone Deaf and All Thumbs? An Invitation to Music-Making - Softcover

Wilson, Frank R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0394753542 ISBN 13: 9780394753546

Publisher: Vintage Books, 1987

Synopsis

A neurologist and amateur musician explores the connections between neurology and music and provides an informative look into how and why people make music, how human beings hear music, and how musicians remember what they're playing

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

Convinced that everyone has an inborn ability to make music (a "biological guarantee of musicianship"), California neurologist Wilson, who came late to piano playing, here presents a picture of the brain and muscular system to help nonmusicians to understand that the human body is a "natural learner." He describes, in admirably untechnical language, the biology of rhythm and tempo, how we hear and see, the intricacies of musical notation; he tells what it's like to perform in public. Drawing comparisons between music-making and athletic skills, Wilson also tries to clarify such mysteries as tone deafness, perfect ptich, sight reading, memorization and "pumping ivory."
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About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage Books
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0394753542
• ISBN 13: 9780394753546
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 210