Dr John Powell has used his many years of experience, both as a composer and as a physicist, to explain all the secrets of How Music Works.
Discover the answers to these and many other questions in John Powell’s charming, straight-talking and ear-opening guide to what music is and how exactly it works. Opening up the world of acoustics and the science of music to deepen our appreciation and understanding of what we listen to, How Music Works covers subjects from the difference between how we hear a musical note and any other kind of sound, to a brief history of the scale system, why a run of arpeggios sounds ‘romantic’ and why a flute sounds different to a clarinet.
How Music Works is out this week, and you can order it from Amazon now.
23 Aug 2010