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Book Description
"Writing with grace and clarity...he touches on everything from the evolution of the Western tonal system, to the Freudian theory of music as infantile escapism, to the differing roles o the right and left brain in perceiving music."
WALL STREET JOURNAL
Drawing on his own life long passion for music and synthesizing the theories of Plato, Schopenhauer, Stravinsky, Nietzsche, Bartok, and others, distinguished author and psychologist Anthony Storr illuminates music's deep beauty and timeless truth and why and how music is one of the fundamental activities of mankind.
- Book Details
- English Books
- Paperback 224 Pages
- Edition: New Ed
- ISBN-10: 0006861865
- ISBN-13: 9780006861867
- Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
- Pub date: Apr 07, 1997
- Dimensions: 19 cm x 13 cm x 2 cm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Paperback and Hardcover
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