How Music Works : The Science and Psychology of Beautiful Sounds, from Beethoven to the Beatles and Beyond (Paperback)

from Othemts

With a lot of humor and avoidance of technical detail, Powell breaks down everything about music including physics, acoustics, decibels, rhythm and melody, and musical scores. Despite the simplicit...

from quaintlittlehead

This book gets into the very technical details of how music is organised, not simply by listing out the seemingly arbitrary conventions which govern it, but by explaining them through the principle...

from gtvalentine

How Music Works is a fantastic introductory book for the musically interested, but otherwise musically uneducated reader. John Powell writes in a breezy conversational style, never talking down to ...

from gtvalentine

How Music Works is a fantastic introductory book for the musically interested, but otherwise musically uneducated reader. John Powell writes in a breezy conversational style, never talking down to ...

from jotoyo

How Music Works is right up my alley, as I studied music and have an interst in science as well. John powell not only knows about both science and music, he has an entertaining style of writing tha...