Ebook: The music instinct: how music works and why we can't do without it

Prelude : The harmonious universe -- Overture : Why we sing -- Staccato : The atoms of music -- Andante : What's in a tune? -- Legato : Keeping it together -- Tutti : All together now -- Con moto : Slave to the rhythm -- Pizzicato : The colour of music -- Misterioso : All in the mind -- Appassionatio : Light my fire -- Capriccioso : Going in and out of style -- Parlando : Why music talks to us -- Serioso : The meaning of music -- Coda : The condition of music.;"In 'The Music Instinct' Philip Ball provides a comprehensive, accessible survey of what is known and what is still unknown about how music works its magic, and why, as much as eating and sleeping, it seems indispensable to humanity."