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Tone deaf and all thumbs? : an invitation to music-making for late bloomers and non-prodigies
- Title
- Tone deaf and all thumbs? : an invitation to music-making for late bloomers and non-prodigies / Frank R. Wilson.
- Author
- Wilson, Frank R.
- Publication
- New York, NY : Viking, 1986.
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Details
- Description
- xii, 210 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- Publishers Weekly: Convinced that everyone has an inborn ability to make music (a ''biological guarantee of musicianship''), California neurologist Wilson, who came late to piano playing, here presents a picture of the brain and muscular system to help nonmusicians to understand that the human body is a ''natural learner.'' He describes, in admirably untechnical language, the biology of rhythm and tempo, how we hear and see, the intricacies of musical notation; he tells what it's like to perform in public. Drawing comparisons between music-making and athletic skills, Wilson also tries to clarify such mysteries as tone deafness, perfect pitch, sight reading, memorization and ``pumping ivory.
- Alternative Title
- Invitation to music-making for late bloomers and non-prodigies
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographies.
- Contents
- Introduction -- 1: Is music a physical culture? -- 2: Pumping ivory -- 3: Fast fingers and hot chops -- 4: Did you hear what I just heard? -- 5: What's the pitch? -- 6: That sounds like music -- 7: High altitude hearing -- 8: Time in your hands -- 9: Those dark spots in front of your eyes are notes -- 10: Show time -- 11: If at first you don't succeed, be grateful -- Coda.
- ISBN
- 0670808423
- 9780670808427
- LCCN
- 85040553
- OCLC
- ocm12420342
- 12420342
- SCSB-14701410
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library