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The Music Instinct

Philip Ball

The Music Instinct Philip Ball provides the first comprehensive, accessible survey of what is known--and what is still unknown--about how music works its magic, and why, as much as eating and sleeping, it seems indispensable to humanity. --from publisher description

GenresMusicPhilosophy and aestheticsMusic and science

452 pages, 2 editions

English edition · First published 2010 by Oxford University Press · ISBN 9780199754274

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Editions

2 editions

English

  • The music instinct · Oxford University Press · 2010 · ISBN 9780199754274 This page
  • The music instinct · The Bodley Head · 2010 · ISBN 9781847920881

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