Music to Raise the Dead: The Secret Origins of Musicology
Music may be the most beautiful experiment conducted in the laboratory of time.
Maria Popova • We Are Made of Music, We Are Made of Time: Violinist Natalie Hodges on the Poetic Science of Sound and Feeling
You can’t touch music—it exists only at the moment it is being apprehended—and yet it can profoundly alter how we view the world and our place in it. Music can get us through difficult patches in our lives by changing not only how we feel about ourselves, but also how we feel about everything outside ourselves.
David Byrne • How Music Works
The Great Animal Orchestra: Finding the Origins of Music in the World's Wild Places
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