Book

(Ramblings)
ABOUT MUSIC
and The Mind


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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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.

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'All great thoughts are conceived while walking.'
Nietzsche

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