About this title: Why does music have such a powerful effect on our minds and bodies? It is the most mysterious and most tangible of all forms of art. Yet, Anthony Storr believes, music today is a deeply significant experience for a greater number of people than ever before. In this book, he explores why this should be so. Drawing on a wide variety of opinions, Storr argues t hat the patterns of music make sense of our inner experience, giving both structure and coherence to our feelings and emotions. It is because music possesses this capacity to restore our sense of personal wholeness in a culture which ...
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Description: Acceptable. Former Library book. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Fine. 0029316219 Free Press hardcover w/dustjacket, 1992, 1st edition, unread, No marks/tears or defects...Fine/Fine (just like new)...New mylar cover, bubble-wrapped and mailed in a Box w/delivery confirmation. read more
Edition: Text is Free of Markings
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Free Press, New York
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780029316214ISBN:0029316219
Description: Very Good Plus in Near Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 212 pp. Tightly bound. Corners not bumped. Faint, minor foxing on top fore-edge. read more
Edition: Third Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harper Collins
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780002153980ISBN:000215398X
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall; fpep scuffed where bookplate removed, else clean bright & tight-dj lightly rubbed-in mylar cover. read more
Edition: 1992 1st ed.
Binding: hardcover
Publisher: New York: The Free Press
ISBN-13:9780029316214ISBN:0029316219
Description: 212pp. hardback sm 4to: Fine in a Fine dj. An investigation of music and the human psyche by the literary British psychiatrist Anthony Storr (1920-2001). read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Free Press
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780029316214ISBN:0029316219
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Book is cocked; dust jacket has a little edge wear. Glued binding. Paper over boards. 212 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Free Press
Date Published: 1st printing, 1992
Description: Very Good+/Very Good+ hard cover. 8vo, boards, 212pp. edgewear, nicks, dust jacket. bookplate front end page. slight shelfwear. psychology. read more
Edition: 3rd ptg
Binding: hardcover
Publisher: Free Press, New York
Date Published: c1992
ISBN-13:9780029316214ISBN:0029316219
Description: H. Matisse dj art. Fine, fine dj, white cloth w/ gray bds. Lightly faded at edges. 212 pgs, ISBN: 0-02-931621-9. Indexed. With bibliography. Edward T. Cone blurb. Appears unread. read more
Edition: NEW ED
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS Country = UNITED KINGDOM
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780006861867ISBN:0006861865
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 224 pages. (224 pages) why does music have such an effect on our minds and bodies? it is the most mysterious and most intangible of all forms of art. anthony storr believes that music today is a significant experience for a greater number of people than ever before, and in this book he explores why this should be so. edition new ed (Paperback) read more
Description: "Drawing on a wide variety of opinions, Storr argues that the patterns of music make sense of our inner experience, giving both structure and coherence to our feelings and emotions. " Pp. xii/212. Black cloth, d/w. VG/VG. read more
Description: Good. Book shows minor use. Cover and Binding have minimal wear and the pages have only minimal creases. A tradition of southern quality and service. All books guaranteed at the Atlanta Book Company. read more
"All of the late Anthony Storr's books are worth reading. He was an eminent British psychiatrist who is always fascinating when discussing Freud and Jung. This book concerns his love of music and he finds himself most at home when talking about Nietzsche. But it is the arousal of music that produced this music and he analyses its reality."
"Made it about half-way through this book -- it doesn't strike me as worth finishing. It's not bad as far as it goes, but Storr is no authority on this topic. He's a psychologist who has written books about a number of eclectic subjects, and has no specialization in musicology or music psychology.
This book is essentially a long essay by somebody who is generally smart and who has reflected philosophically about music with the resources of a decently-read layperson, but he doesn't seem any more qualified in his judgments than I am, and I don't mean I'm an expert. We've done nearly equivalent amounts of reading on the subject, but I'm not running out to write about book about it.
(shrug)
I know there's a book out there on music psychology that is the one I'm looking for, but this wasn't it."
"The most lucid and interesting book about music I've ever read. Storr is concerned with the affect of music on personality, the cultural relativism of music's theoretical underpinnings, and the emotional/intellectual dimensions and impact of listening to and performing music."
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