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How Music Works

The Science and Psychology of Beautiful Sounds, from Beethoven to the Beatles and Beyond

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How Music Works

De: John Powell
Narrado por: Walter Dixon
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An enthralling investigation into the mysteries of music. Have you ever wondered how off-key you are while singing in the shower? Or if your Bob Dylan albums really sound better on vinyl? Or why certain songs make you cry?

Now, scientist and musician John Powell invites you on an entertaining journey through the world of music. Discover what distinguishes music from plain old noise, how scales help you memorize songs, what the humble recorder teaches you about timbre (assuming your suffering listeners don’t break it first), why anyone can learn to play a musical instrument, what the absurdly complicated names of classical music pieces actually mean, how musical notes came to be (hint: you can thank a group of stodgy men in 1939 London for that one), how to make an oboe from a drinking straw, and much more.

With wit and charm, and in the simplest terms, Powell explains the science and psychology of music. Clever, informative, and deeply engaging, How Music Works takes the secrets of music away from the world of badly dressed academics and gives every one of us—whether we love to sing or play air guitar—the means to enhance our listening pleasure.

©2010 John Powell (P)2010 Gildan Media Corp Ciencia Creatividad y Talento Historia y Crítica Instrucciones y Técnica Música Psicología Psicología y Salud Mental Guitarra Divertido Ingenioso Para reflexionar Músico

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"Powell conveys the material with enough humor and cocktail party facts to keep the book light and fun." ( Publisher's Weekly)
Comprehensive Explanations • Accessible Information • Professional Narration • Educational Content • Humorous Approach
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As a guitarist, choral director and musician of over 30 years, I have a pretty good understanding of the physics of music as well as music theory. However, I came away learning a number of new things from this book AND with a more solid understanding of things I already knew.

While I agree that a British reader may have made the listen a little more fun, the narrator was fine for me. The author's recordings at the end of chapters were good in most cases, but his demonstration of vibrato and rubato were generally not that obvious, even to someone who knew exactly what he was doing and trying to communicate.

His explanation of the overtone series and how they contribute to an instrument's sound was VERY good, as was his explanation of how the pentatonic scales were mathematically derived (something that I didn't know).

The author also did a good job near the end of the book explaining the weird "names" for classical compositions. His appendix explaining the intervals and songs that used them was also very good.

Only other criticism (and it is a small one) is that the use of terms tone and semi-tone is less common than whole step and half step, which may confuse some readers a bit.

All in all a really nice read and the author has a GREAT sense of humor!

Nearly everyone will get something out of this!

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A easy and fun read about everything music. A complete explanation of how sound and music work, from origins to how and why we listen. I recommend this to every musician and every music lover. Rikki Swin

Every musician should read this!

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Would you consider the audio edition of How Music Works to be better than the print version?

depends on the reader/listener. I am the kind of person who focuses best while driving, so audio books are great.

What did you like best about this story?

It covers a lot of basic information on sound and music in a straight-forward, easy-to-understand manner with enough humor to keep it from being dry.

If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?

Film???? no

Any additional comments?

YES - the writer should have a music theorist edit the terminology. There is a difference between a note (what we see on paper) and a pitch (what we hear). the author confuses these. There are a few other discrepancies which might hinder other music theory teachers from adopting this book.

A good companion book for college music students..

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The book was entertaining, enlightening, and educational, plus funny. The only problem was the book was written by a Brit, using many humorous British expression and slang. The reader was American and the contrast of British writing and American reader didn't work. At the end of each chapter the author, John Powell, comes in and demonstrates with guitar or other instrument what the chapter was about. The author is hilarious and I wish that he or another Brit had read it. I recommend it highly and I learned a lot!

Great book - wrong narrator

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A few chapters--like those on the development of the diatonic scale are really interesting. The author himself steps in at the end of some chapters to demonstrate principles on his guitar, and this really helps. Problems: there are spoken passages referring to notes and scales that could easily have been backed by musical audio. There are hundreds of places where this could have been done. In a description of a flute, there's no sound bite of a flute. Curious why they didn't bother to use more sounds. Some of content is poorly suited to the audio format.

Some good chapters, but no musical sound bites

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What did you love best about How Music Works?

Easly explained diference between ordinary music listener and those with perfect pitch, why some sounds match together and others not. How acients tuned their instruments and why it was standardized just in 1939. It's must have! for everyone who like to play or just learn to play an instrument.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Yes, it was.

That's how it works!

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I definitely learned a few things, even though I've been studying music for years. I would definitely recommend.

Informative

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this book is witty and knowledgeable. it's a great way to help gain, Improve and to glean information that will help you on your musical journey. The wit of the author aids in ensuring the learning process is enjoyable.

Perfect for every level of musician

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Although the author tries to give layman an over view of music and how it works, if you don't know anything (or practically anything) this book is not for you. This book should be read, not listened to. This is the kind of book where you have to read some concepts over and over, and you also have to do some practice on your own (even though there is some demonstration at the end of each chapter, but it feels too theoretical).
When I purchased this book, I thought I was going to learn about psychology of music, or even some concepts of music therapy, but this book is not about that. This book gets very technical at some points, and some dumb at others. I feel a little disappointed.

Enlightening, but...

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Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

I would recommend this book to someone who really wants to gain as much information about music and sounds as they can or if you are just learning to play or read music. Some of the technical info I could do without

Have you listened to any of Walter Dixon’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

Never have. But I do like his style

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

No because there are some chapters worth listing to a couple of times

Any additional comments?

This is a good book for a person who is really into every aspect of music, reading playing, composing, listening, and the technical aspect of sound. Warning you will not learn everything but you pick up enough to make it worth the listen.

Intresting gets better the more you listen

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