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Book (Ramblings) ABOUT MUSIC and The Mind |
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Offa's Dyke national trail provides the backdrop to ramblings about the art and science of music.
Topics along the 180-mile route range from the discovery of harmony to how the brain is affected by music, from how music inspired ancient astronomy to new technology and the future. 
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There is an 'About Music' Amazon Kindle edition.
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Rebecca Northway Photography
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Chapters. Click on a heading for chapter samples:
1. What Is Music? In which we begin a journey and make a map. 2. From Pythagoras to Dr Who In which we work out, musically speaking how we arrived here. 3. Discovering Harmony In which we traverse mountains and do some musical sums. 4. One Man's Music In which we meet some sheep and the Count of Counterpoint. 5. A Musical Disaster In which we float gravity free, break some musical eggs and prepare to leave the Middle Ages. 6. Making Waves In which we see music. 7. Myth and Music In which music moves mountains and revives the dead. 8. The Musical Cosmos In which mind, matter and music interweave and we do battle in a wheat field. 9. Philosophers on Music In which we find out what some top brains have said about music and encounter a ghostly owl. 10. Between the Ears In which we follow a sound wave into the brain and end up in Oswestry. 11. The Shape of Music In which we walk with the stream in the sky and encounter an unearthly wind. 12. Romance and Revolution In which all colour vanishes and magic mushrooms appear. 13. Contemporary Sounds In which we spend time on the bald mountain and heed nature's call. 14. Reprise, What Will Music Be? In which we hear the music of the spheres and eat a blueberry muffin. 15. The Spirit of Music In which the sun rises and sets at the same time and old friends meet again. Pre-Ramble Pics
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Audio Diary Extract towards the end of the walk: Offa's Dyke Path:
'All great thoughts are conceived while walking.'
Nietzsche |