Music and the Mind

Storr, Anthony

ISBN 10: 0345383184 / ISBN 13: 9780345383181

Editore: Random House Publishing Group, 1993

Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc. Codice articolo 00082206267

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"Writing with grace and clarity...he touches on everything from the evolution of the Western tonal system, to the Freudian theory of music as infantile escapism, to the differing roles o the right and left brain in perceiving music."
WALL STREET JOURNAL
Drawing on his own life long passion for music and synthesizing the theories of Plato, Schopenhauer, Stravinsky, Nietzsche, Bartok, and others, distinguished author and psychologist Anthony Storr illuminates music's deep beauty and timeless truth and why and how music is one of the fundamental activities of mankind.

Informazioni sull?autore: Anthony Storr was a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and an Emeritus Fellow of Green College, Oxford. He was the author of numerous books, including The Integrity of the Personality, The Dynamics of Creation, The Essential Jung, and The Art of Psychotherapy. Dr. Storr died in 2001.

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Titolo: Music and the Mind
Casa editrice: Random House Publishing Group
Data di pubblicazione: 1993
Legatura: Brossura
Condizione: Good