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"Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain" by Oliver Review by Rachel |
I'm 130 pages in and am totally enjoying it. My most recently read favorite tidbit is this: There is reason to believe that absolute pitch (ability to name a pitch without comparing it to an external standard) can be taught to a large percentage of children under the right conditions: when they are learning a tonal language such as Chinese, as well as taking music lessons, if done at the right age. The data: A study of 1st year music students at Eastman In another study, researchers in Wisconsin compared 8-month-old infants to adults and found that the infants relied much more heavily on absolute pitch cues; the adults on relative pitch cues. They concluded that absolute pitch may be universal and highly adaptive in infancy but maladaptive later and therefore lost. "Infants limited to grouping melodies by perfect pitches |
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The Oz books by L. Frank Baum |
It's best to read them
in order. Forget the movie and plunge in, they're
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Dan These are in the public domain now and available free of charge through Project Gutenberg. zip file
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Brazil |
movie [classic Terry Gilliam surreal]
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Rochelle |
Deathbird Stories by Harlan Ellison Schrödinger's Cat by Robert Anton Wilson Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
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I correlate Deathbird
with the destruction of my religious beliefs. It posed questions
that deeply disturbed me.
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Damon note: I'm not so much recommending the books as noting their impact. |
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