This is Your Brain on Music

'Fluent and readable... Levitin rightly insists that we are all better equipped to perform and appreciate music than we think... We are, he says, hard-wired for music' Observer

Exploring the relationship between music and the human brain, acclaimed neuroscientist Daniel Levitin explains how humans experience music, and why it is essential to our lives. Drawing on the latest scientific research and musical examples ranging from Bach to The Beatles, he reveals how our love affair with music is fundamental to who we are.

'A delightfully informative read. You'll never hear music in the same way again' Classic FM Magazine

'A comprehensive and thought-provoking exploration of the neuroscience of music' New Scientist

'Music seems to have an almost willful, evasive quality, defying simple explanation, so that the more we find out, the more there is to know. Levitin's book is an eloquent and poetic exploration of this paradox' Sting