Klarinet Archive - Posting 000967.txt from 2001/10

From: Stan Geidel <sgeidel@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Yes We Have No Bananas vs. Beethoven 9
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 13:59:40 -0500

Tony Pay writes:

> I think that's fair. My point would only be that Dan and his
> (fictional?) opponent just haven't between them come up with a
> sufficiently rich theory of how music works. That's not surprising,
> because *no-one* has come up with much of a theory about that.

For a fascinating discourse on how music works and why we respond to it as
we do, see:

Music, the Brain & Ecstasy : How Music Captures Our Imagination
by Robert Jourdain

Using science (human biology) and psychology, Jourdain's very readable book
attempts to explain why music is meaningful to us. Highly recommended.

Stan Geidel

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