Category - Music
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Tuning the World: The Rise of 440 Hertz in Music, Science, and Politics, 1859-1955
HardcoverOriginal price $55.00 - Original price $55.00Original price $55.00$66.99$66.99 - $66.99Current price $66.99| /Tuning the World tells the unknown story of how the musical pitch A 440 became the global norm. Now commonly accepted as the point of reference fo...
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This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /In this groundbreaking union of art and science, rocker-turned-neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin explores the connection between music--its performa...
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Quadrivium: The Four Classical Liberal Arts of Number, Geometry, Music, & Cosmology
HardcoverOriginal price $26.00Original price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /The quadrivium-the classical curriculum-comprises the four liberal arts of number, geometry, music, and cosmology. It was studied from antiquity ...
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Music by the Numbers: From Pythagoras to Schoenberg
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /How music has influenced mathematics, physics, and astronomy from ancient Greece to the twentieth centuryMusic is filled with mathematical elemen...
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Why You Like It: The Science and Culture of Musical Taste
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /From the chief architect of the Pandora Radio’s Music Genome Project comes a definitive and groundbreaking examination of why we respond to music...
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Animal Musicalities: Birds, Beasts, and Evolutionary Listening
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /How conflicts between science and the humanities have shaped our understanding of the line between art and animal behaviorOver the past century a...
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Whale Music: Thousand Mile Songs in a Sea of Sound
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /The marvelous sonic world of whales, from the perspective of music and science. Whale song is an astonishing world of sound whose existence no one ...
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