Project chair Kay Redfield Jamison convenes scientists and scholars, composers, performers, theorists, physicians, psychologists, and other experts at the Library for a compelling 2-year series, with generous support from the Dana Foundation. The Library's Music and the Brain events offer lectures, conversations and symposia about the explosion of new research at the intersection of cognitive neuroscience and music. Books by Daniel Levitin The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature Starting at 1.45 The Changing Mind: A Neuroscientists Guide to Ageing Well Starting at 8.61 A Field Guide to Lies and Statistics: A Neuroscientist on How to Make Sense of a Complex World 3. Neuroscientist, rock producer, and best selling author (This is Your Brain on Music) Levitin talks about his research for this fascinating book that takes the reader on a journey of the world through 6 types of songs-friendship, joy, comfort, knowledge, religion/ritual, and love. Though there were lists of six songs throughout the book, the six songs referred to in the title were six types of songs. Title: The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature.ĭaniel Levitin's new book The World in Six Songs has attracted a serious fan following, including Sting, Joni Mitchell and Willie Nelson. Daniel Levitin, however, claims that 'music has shaped the world through six kinds of songs: friendship, joy, comfort, knowledge, religion and love.' What enduring principle lay behind. The auditory art of music became part of our brain’s wiring tens of thousands of years ago, and human nature has been shaped by six broad categories of songs, by which Levitin means music of all kinds.

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