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The music instinct: how music works and why we can't do without it
New York: Oxford University Press (2010)
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The Music Instinct Philip Ball provides the first comprehensive, accessible survey of what is known--and what is still unknown--about how music works its magic, and why, as much as eating and sleeping, it seems indispensable to humanity. --from publisher description.Author's Profile
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