Borders UK - Books, DVDs and Magazines

My Basket 0 items View Checkout

Help Sign in to view your account

Free UK delivery to stores and on orders over £20.00

Add Music and the Mind Paperback book by to your basket

Music and the Mind

by Anthony Storr

£7.19 £8.99
You save £1.80 (20%)

Paperback book
IN STOCK - usually dispatches within 24 hours
Free UK delivery to your local store

Would you prefer a different copy or edition?

13 Used & Rare copies available from £6.61

Music and the Mind

Why does music have such a powerful effect on our minds and bodies? It is the most mysterious and most tangible of all forms of art. Yet, Anthony Storr believes, music today is a deeply significant experience for a greater number of people than ever before. In this book, he explores why this should be so. Drawing on a wide variety of opinions, Storr argues t hat the patterns of music make sense of our inner experience, giving both structure and coherence to our feelings and emotions. It is because music possesses this capacity to restore our sense of personal wholeness in a culture which requires us to separate rational thought from feelings that many people find it so life-enhancing that it justifies existence. The author also wrote Churchill's Black Dog .

Top reviews

Bookseller review

Music and the Mind

Psychiatrist and Oxford don Anthony Storr was fascinated by creative people. This passion for music, it's effect on the mind, body and it's place in our livesall are explained in great detail in his book. The music discussed and analysed is classical in nature, focusing on music with no words and the differences between listening to music with others or in isolation, but most importantly, why we must have music in our lives and why individuals must create. No matter what music you love the book offers a great insight into the subject.

Review by Daniel of the Newbury Borders on 2009-03-24 09:34:31

What's your view? Write a review for Music and the Mind