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  • Live Dead: The Grateful Dead, Live Recordings, and the Ideology of Liveness by Brackett, John
    John Brackett

    Live Dead: The Grateful Dead, Live Recordings, and the Ideology of Liveness

    The Grateful Dead were one of the most successful live acts of the rock era. Performing more than 2,300 shows between 1965 and 1995, the Grateful Dead's reputation as a "live band" was--and continues to be--sustained by thousands of live concert recordings from every...
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  • How Music Changed Youtube by Heuguet, Guillaume
    Guillaume Heuguet

    How Music Changed Youtube

    How do digital technologies transform music? The answer depends on the lens of one's analysis: creation, promotion, or the experience of the listener. How Music Changed YouTube shows that the reverse question - How does music transform digital technologies? - is also worth exploring:...
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  • Music and Mind: Harnessing the Arts for Health and Wellness by Fleming, Renée
    Ren馥 Fleming

    Music and Mind: Harnessing the Arts for Health and Wellness

    "This book inspires us all to immerse ourselves in the vast potential of music and other creative arts to heal our wounds, sharpen our minds, enliven our bodies, and restore our broken connections." --Bessel van der Kolk, #1 New York Times bestselling author of...
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  • The Life of Music in South India by Sankaran, T.
    T. Sankaran

    The Life of Music in South India

    An insider's eight-decade overview of South India's 20th century classical music cultureThis book offers an account of Carnatic music culture drawing on the knowledge of T. Sankaran, a musician raised in an illustrious non-Brahmin devadasi family, and his long affiliation with cultural institutions including...
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  • A Year of Deep Listening: 365 Text Scores for Pauline Oliveros by Loveless, Stephanie
    Stephanie Loveless

    A Year of Deep Listening: 365 Text Scores for Pauline Oliveros

    365 scores for listening in celebration of the legacy of groundbreaking composer Pauline Oliveros. A Year of Deep Listening is a publication of 365 scores for listening gathered by the Center for Deep Listening in celebration of the legacy of groundbreaking composer Pauline Oliveros....
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  • Remediating Sound: Repeatable Culture, YouTube and Music by Rogers, Holly
    Carol Vernallis

    Remediating Sound: Repeatable Culture, Youtube and Music

    Remediating Sound studies the phenomena of remixing, mashup and recomposition: forms of reuse and sampling that have come to characterise much of YouTube's audiovisual content. Through collaborative composition, collage and cover songs to reaction videos and political activism, users from diverse backgrounds have embraced...
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  • Key Constellations: Interpreting Tonality in Film Volume 4 by Motazedian, Táhirih
    T疉irih Motazedian

    Key Constellations: Interpreting Tonality in Film Volume 4

    Key is one of the simplest building blocks of music and is among the foundational properties of a work's musical identity--so why isn't it a standard parameter in discussing film music? Key Constellations: Interpreting Tonality in Film is the first book to investigate film...
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  • Paul Robeson's Voices by Olwage, Grant
    Grant Olwage

    Paul Robeson's Voices

    Paul Robeson's Voices is a meditation on Robeson's singing, a study of the artist's life in song. Music historian Grant Olwage examines Robeson's voice as it exists in two broad and intersecting domains: as sound object and sounding gesture, specifically how it was fashioned...
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  • Just Beyond Listening: Essays of Sonic Encounter Volume 5 by Heller, Michael C.
    Michael C. Heller

    Just Beyond Listening: Essays of Sonic Encounter Volume 5

    Just Beyond Listening asks how we might think about encounters with sound that complicate standard accounts of aurality. In a series of essays, Michael C. Heller considers how sound functions in dialogue with a range of sensory and affective modalities, including physical co-presence, textual...
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  • Help!: The Beatles, Duke Ellington, and the Magic of Collaboration by Brothers, Thomas
    Thomas Brothers

    Help!: The Beatles, Duke Ellington, and the Magic of Collaboration

    The Beatles and Duke Ellington's Orchestra stand as the two greatest examples of collaboration in music history. Through his highly original examination of these two musical legends, Duke University musicologist Thomas Brothers delivers a portrait of the creative process at work, demonstrating that the...
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  • Listening, Belonging, and Memory by Gardner, Abigail
    Abigail Gardner

    Listening, Belonging, and Memory

    Listening, Belonging, and Memory puts connected listening at the center of current debates around whose voices might be listened to, who by, and why. Arguing that listening has to be understood in relation to the self, nation, age, witnessing, and memory, it uses examples...
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  • Black Women's Liberation Movement Music: Soul Sisters, Black Feminist Funksters, and Afro-Disco Divas by Rabaka, Reiland
    Reiland Rabaka

    Black Women's Liberation Movement Music: Soul Sisters, Black Feminist Funksters, and Afro-Disco Divas

    Black Women's Liberation Movement Music argues that the Black Women's Liberation Movement of the mid-to-late 1960s and 1970s was a unique combination of Black political feminism, Black literary feminism, and Black musical feminism, among other forms of Black feminism. This book critically explores the...
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  • Music Studies and Its Moment of Truth: Leading Change Through America's Black Music Roots: CMS Emerging Fields in Music by Sarath, Edward
    Edward Sarath

    Music Studies and Its Moment of Truth: Leading Change through America's Black Music Roots: CMS Emerging Fields in Music

    Music Studies and Its Moment of Truth: Leading Change through America's Black Music Roots presents a new framework for racial justice discourse in the context of music studies and education. Centering on Black American Music, the book issues challenges to both the conventional music...
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  • Community-Engaged Performance Tours: A Guide for Music Ensemble Directors and Educators by Spinazzola, James
    James Spinazzola

    Community-Engaged Performance Tours: A Guide for Music Ensemble Directors and Educators

    Community-Engaged Performance Tours addresses the role of performance touring as a form of classroom and community engagement.Author: James SpinazzolaISBN-10: 103224464XISBN-13: 9781032244648Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/04/2023Pages: 116Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.64lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.31d
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  • Unfreezing Music Education: Critical Formalism and Possibilities for Self-Reflexive Music Learning by Louth, Paul
    Paul Louth

    Unfreezing Music Education: Critical Formalism and Possibilities for Self-Reflexive Music Learning

    Unfreezing Music Education argues that discussing the conflicting meanings of music should occupy a more central role in formal music education and music teacher preparation programs than is currently the case. Drawing on the critical theory of the Frankfurt School, the author seeks to...
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  • Music, Place, and Identity in Italian Urban Soundscapes Circa 1550-1860 by Piperno, Franco
    Franco Piperno

    Music, Place, and Identity in Italian Urban Soundscapes circa 1550-1860

    Music, Place, and Identity in Italian Urban Soundscapes circa 1550-1860 presents new perspectives on the role music played in the physical, cultural, and civic spaces of Italian cities from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. Across thirteen chapters, contributors explore the complex connections between...
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  • Listen: On Music, Sound and Us by Faber, Michel
    Michel Faber

    Listen: On Music, Sound and Us

    This book is, at its core, about music and the people who listen to it--your friends, your neighbors and you. A fresh approach toward our cultural and sensical relationship to sound, this melodic examination of the world of music explores two big questions: How...
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  • Music in the Flesh: An Early Modern Musical Physiology by Varwig, Bettina
    Bettina Varwig

    Music in the Flesh: An Early Modern Musical Physiology

    A corporeal history of music-making in early modern Europe. Music in the Flesh reimagines the lived experiences of music-making subjects--composers, performers, listeners--in the long seventeenth century. There are countless historical testimonies of the powerful effects of music upon the early modern body; it is...
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  • Field Recordings from the Inside: Essays by Bonomo, Joe
    Joe Bonomo

    Field Recordings from the Inside: Essays

    Using as its epigraph and unifying principle Luc Sante's notion that "Every human being is an archeological site," Field Recordings from the Inside provides a deep and personal examination at the impact of music on our lives. Bonomo effortlessly moves between the personal and...
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  • The Land Is Sung: Zulu Performances and the Politics of Place by Pooley, Thomas M.
    Thomas M. Pooley

    The Land Is Sung: Zulu Performances and the Politics of Place

    Ethnography on the politics of land and belonging in post apartheid Zulu performancesWhat does it mean to belong? In The Land is Sung, musicologist Thomas M. Pooley shows how performances of song, dance, and praise poetry connect Zulu communities to their ancestral homes and...
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  • Desire in Chromatic Harmony: A Psychodynamic Exploration of Fin de Siècle Tonality by Smith, Kenneth M.
    Kenneth M. Smith

    Desire in Chromatic Harmony: A Psychodynamic Exploration of Fin de Si鐵le Tonality

    How does musical harmony engage listeners in relations of desire? Where does this desire come from? Author Kenneth Smith seeks to answer these questions by analyzing works from the turn of the twentieth- century that are both harmonically enriched and psychologically complex. Desire in...
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  • Listen: On Music, Sound and Us by Faber, Michel
    Michel Faber

    Listen: On Music, Sound and Us

    This book is, at its core, about music and the people who listen to it--your friends, your neighbors and you. A fresh approach toward our cultural and sensical relationship to sound, this melodic examination of the world of music explores two big questions: How...
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  • Inclusive Music Histories: Leading Change through Research and Pedagogy: CMS Emerging Fields in Music by Smith, Ayana O.
    Ayana O. Smith

    Inclusive Music Histories: Leading Change through Research and Pedagogy: CMS Emerging Fields in Music

    Inclusive Music Histories: Leading Change through Research and Pedagogy models effective practices for researchers and instructors striving either to reform music history curricula at large or update individual topics within their classes to be more inclusive. Confronting racial and other imbalances of Western music...
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  • British Invasion '64 - The Year That Changed Rock & Roll Forever by Popa, Gene
    Gene Popa

    British Invasion '64 - The Year That Changed Rock & Roll Forever

    "They've got their own groups. What are we going to give America that they don't already have?" - Paul McCartney" They give the teenagers something that thrills them, a vision. The boys and girls of this age are young men and women looking for...
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  • Musical Intimacy: Construction, Connection, and Engagement by Stiegler, Zack
    Zack Stiegler

    Musical Intimacy: Construction, Connection, and Engagement

    Discourse on popular music frequently describes artists' recordings and performances as "intimate." Yet that discourse often stops short of elucidating how a mass-produced commodity such as popular music is able to elicit feelings of intimacy with and among its audience. Through detailed analysis of...
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  • The Jíbaro and the Gaucho United in Music and Song by Sanchez Cruz, Anthony L.
    Anthony L. S疣chez Cruz

    The J?aro and the Gaucho United in Music and Song

    Originally published in the Spanish language in 2018, The J baro and the Gaucho United in Music and Song presents a precise and profound work that contains a plethora of credible documented resources concerning Puerto Rican and Argentine folk culture and music. Through detailed...
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  • White Musical Mythologies: Sonic Presence in Modernism by Mendelssohn, Edmund
    Edmund Mendelssohn

    White Musical Mythologies: Sonic Presence in Modernism

    In a narrative that extends from fin de si鐵le Paris to the 1960s, Edmund Mendelssohn examines modernist thinkers and composers who engaged with non-European and pre-modern cultures as they developed new conceptions of "pure sound." Pairing Erik Satie with Bergson, Edgard Var鑚e with Bataille,...
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  • White Musical Mythologies: Sonic Presence in Modernism by Mendelssohn, Edmund
    Edmund Mendelssohn

    White Musical Mythologies: Sonic Presence in Modernism

    In a narrative that extends from fin de si鐵le Paris to the 1960s, Edmund Mendelssohn examines modernist thinkers and composers who engaged with non-European and pre-modern cultures as they developed new conceptions of "pure sound." Pairing Erik Satie with Bergson, Edgard Var鑚e with Bataille,...
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  • The Self-Restorative Power of Music: A Psychological Perspective by Lachmann, Frank M.
    Frank M. Lachmann

    The Self-Restorative Power of Music: A Psychological Perspective

    This book explores how we can understand the place of music from a self psychological perspective, by investigating three journeys: the one we take when listening to music, the literal journey of the author from Nazi Germany to the United States, and the subjective...
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  • The Future of Songwriting by Hersh, Kristin
    Kristin Hersh

    The Future of Songwriting

    "An endlessly inventive mind and generosity of spirit that alone should give us hope." - The WireThrowing Muses frontwoman and critically acclaimed solo artist Kristin Hersh meditates on the future of her craft in this wry, existential and passionate addition to Melville House's new...
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  • Prophets of Love: The Unlikely Kinship of Leonard Cohen and the Apostle Paul Volume 15 by Anderson, Matthew R.
    Matthew R. Anderson

    Prophets of Love: The Unlikely Kinship of Leonard Cohen and the Apostle Paul Volume 15

    Leonard Cohen and the Apostle Paul might be imagined as brothers with wildly different characters but a strong family resemblance. Paul, the elder sibling, was awkward, abrasive, and zealous. Leonard, the successful younger brother, was a smooth-talking romantic, prone to addiction and depression. Paul...
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  • Song: A History in 12 Parts by Potter, John
    John Potter

    Song: A History in 12 Parts

    From one of our most innovative singers, a vibrant history of song stretching from Hildegard von Bingen and Benjamin Britten to Bjk "Songs can be intensely personal (whether you hear them or sing them) and none of us would choose the same twelve songs...
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  • My Song Is My Own: 100 Women's Songs by Henderson, Kathy
    Kathy Henderson

    My Song Is My Own: 100 Women's Songs

    A collection of powerful and evocative songs spanning five centuries, My Song is My Own takes the reader on a musical journey of courtship, desire and sexual relationships, marriage, motherhood and childhood, and work - paid and unpaid. The book reveals some of the...
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  • The Blue Series: The Story Behind the Color by Blackwell, Ben
    Ben Blackwell

    The Blue Series: The Story Behind the Color

    I love great books about records: ripping yarns about everything that happened on the way to my stereo, with no minutiae too small to matter. The Blue Series: The Story Behind the Coloris the tale, in depth, behind every Blue single. - David Fricke,...
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  • Timbre: Paradox, Materialism, Vibrational Aesthetics by Van Elferen, Isabella
    Isabella Van Elferen

    Timbre: Paradox, Materialism, Vibrational Aesthetics

    Timbre is among the most important and the most elusive aspects of music. Visceral and immediate in its sonic properties, yet also considered sublime and ineffable, timbre finds itself caught up in metaphors: tone "color", "wet" acoustics, or in Schoenberg's words, "the illusory stuff...
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  • Woodstock at 50: Anatomy of a Revolution by Prewett, Aidan
    Aidan Prewett

    Woodstock at 50: Anatomy of a Revolution

    As the 1960's drew to a close, the gathering at Woodstock defined a moment in history and redefined the world of music and politics over the course of a single weekend. From the Cuban Missile Crisis to the Vietnam war, Woodstock placed three days...
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  • Who'll Stop the Rain: Respect, Remembrance, and Reconciliation in Post-Vietnam America by Bradley, Doug
    Doug Bradley

    Who'll Stop the Rain: Respect, Remembrance, and Reconciliation in Post-Vietnam America

    In their 2015 award-winning book, We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War, Doug Bradley and Craig Werner placed popular music at the heart of the American experience in Vietnam. Over the next two years, they made more than...
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  • The New Analog: Listening and Reconnecting in a Digital World by Krukowski, Damon
    Damon Krukowski

    The New Analog: Listening and Reconnecting in a Digital World

    An NPR Best Book of the Year: "A pointedly passionate look at what's been lost in the digital era." --Los Angeles Times A longtime musician and former member of the indie band Galaxie 500 who has also taught at Harvard, Damon Krukowski has watched...
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  • Shake the City: Experiments in Space and Time, Music and Crisis by Billet, Alexander
    Alexander Billet

    Shake the City: Experiments in Space and Time, Music and Crisis

    What is the relationship between music and radical social change? This book explores their confounding and exciting interrelations in original and engaging ways. Beginning with how capitalism and empire have progressively twisted and atomized our aurally aesthetic experiences over the past century, Alexander Billet...
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  • Sounds Like Titanic: A Memoir by Hindman, Jessica Chiccehitto
    Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman

    Sounds Like Titanic: A Memoir

    Sounds Like Titanic tells the unforgettable story of how Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman became a fake violinist. Struggling to pay her college tuition, Hindman accepts a dream position in an award-winning ensemble that brings ready money. But the ensemble is a sham. When the group...
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  • Theology and Protest Music by Harwell, Jonathan H.
    Jonathan H. Harwell

    Theology and Protest Music

    This interfaith collection of essays on theology in diverse genres of protest music examines Habakkuk, Brazilian eschatology, Black liberation, esoteric Islam in rap, heavy metal as anti-theology, Howard Thurman's relevance to jazz, Santer? drumming, Jay-Z, Funkadelic, Marvin Gaye, Sweet Honey in the Rock, and...
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  • Simple and Daring by Oshinsky, James
    James Oshinsky

    Simple and Daring

    Based on the pioneering improvisation workshops of the late cellist David Darling, Simple and Daring presents suggestions for teaching Social Music Improvisation to children and adults at all levels of ability and experience. There are specific ideas for incorporating improvisation into the common practices...
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  • The Ottava Method, Take Your Life Up An Octave by Muller, Corinna
    Corinna Muller

    The Ottava Method, Take Your Life Up An Octave

    The Ottava Method of self-coaching was created to help ANYONE achieve goals in a stepwise fashion. Ottava is an Italian musical term that means "octave" based on the 8 notes of a musical scale. To "8va" a written musical passage in a score means...
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  • Under the Table and Screaming: Twisted Branch Tea Bazaar by O'Hare, Erin
    Erin O'Hare

    Under the Table and Screaming Volume One: Twisted Branch Tea Bazaar

    Under the Table and Screaming is a multi-volume series exploring the history and legacy of the local music scene in Charlottesville, VA. From literally underground shows in DIY basements to the racially suppressed hip-hop scene to thriving roots music on woodsy back porches to...
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  • This Must Be the Place: Music, Community, and Vanished Space in New York City by Rifkin, Jesse
    Jesse Rifkin

    This Must Be the Place: Music, Community, and Vanished Spaces in New York City

    A fascinating history that examines how real estate, gentrification, community, and the highs and lows of New York City itself shaped the city's music scenes--from folk to house music--and how those scenes shaped the city.Take a walk through almost any neighborhood in Manhattan and...
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  • The Emancipation of Slaves through Music by Knowles Mba, Ph. D. Mathew
    Ph. D. Mathew Knowles Mba

    The Emancipation of Slaves through Music

    In The Emancipation of Slaves Through Music, music mogul Dr. Mathew Knowles presents a keen examination of the liberating effects of music on an oppressed people. By taking readers on the journey of its secret use during slavery up through its eventual commercialization in...
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  • The Birth of Breaking: Hip-Hop History from the Floor Up by Aprahamian, Serouj Midus
    Serouj Midus Aprahamian

    The Birth of Breaking: Hip-Hop History from the Floor Up

    The untold story of how breaking - one of the most widely practiced dance forms in the world today - began as a distinctly African American expression in the Bronx, New York, during the 1970s. Breaking is the first and most widely practiced hip-hop...
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  • Theistic Philosophy of Tagore and Iqbal: A Comparative Study by Khan, Shazia
    Shazia Khan

    Theistic Philosophy of Tagore and Iqbal: A Comparative Study

    Rabindranath Tagore was multi faceted genius -poet, novelist, short story writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, educator and painter. Tagore is considered as an Indo-Anglain writer although he wrote only one poem in English "The Child". All his other original Bengali version "Gitanjali" his poems, short...
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  • perfection and imagination by Gåvertsson, Frits
    Frits G蛆ertsson

    perfection and imagination

    This is a study of Iris Murdoch's moral philosophy. As such it does not address her substantial output as a novelist, playwright, and poet-26 novels between her first, Under the Net (1954) and her last, Jackson's Dilemma (1995), six plays including A Severed Head...
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  • Starboard Quest: Sailing the Sea of Sound to Explore Music's Connection to the Universe by Jager, Mark
    Mark Jager

    Starboard Quest: Sailing the Sea of Sound to Explore Music's Connection to the Universe

    Ancient sages spoke of secret music, purposely hidden from the ears of most mortals. Researchers say the enlightened philosopher, Pythagoras, could hear this music. He perceived it, even while in the immediate presence of those who couldn't.Pythagoras and others believed that all things were...
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