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Believe Your Ears

Author : Kirke Mechem
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442250771
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Believe Your Ears written by Kirke Mechem and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-07-09 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Believe Your Ears is the memoir of composer Kirke Mechem, whose unorthodox path to music provides a fascinating narrative. He wrote songs and played music by ear as a newspaper reporter, a touring tennis player, and a Stanford creative-writing major before studying composition and conducting at Harvard. He describes his residencies in San Francisco, Vienna, London, and Russia, and gives detailed attention to his choral music, operas, and symphonies. He writes that “the twentieth century gave us much brilliant music” but shows how atonality came to dominate the post-war period. His lyric style belongs to no particular “school,” avoiding the trends, –isms, experiments, fads, and lunacies of the period. He encourages younger composers who are trying to bring back beauty, passion, and humor—even entertainment—to classical music. He asks music lovers to believe their own ears, not the lectures of “experts.” Believe Your Ears is addressed to all who love classical music. Along the way, readers will meet Dimitri Shostakovich, Wallace Stegner, Billie Jean King, the Grateful Dead, Richard Rodgers, Benjamin Britten, Bill Tilden, and Aaron Copland—a who’s who in Mechem’s storied career.

Believing Your Ears: Examining Auditory Illusions

Author : Howard Burton
Publisher : Open Agenda Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1771700386
Total Pages : 53 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (717 download)

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Download or read book Believing Your Ears: Examining Auditory Illusions written by Howard Burton and published by Open Agenda Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is based on an extensive filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Diana Deutsch, Professor of Psychology at UC San Diego and one of the world’s leading experts on the psychology of music. This conversation provides behind the scenes insights into her discovery of a large number of auditory illusions, including the so-called Octave Illusion, which concretely illustrate how what we think we’re hearing is often quite different from the actual sounds that are hitting our eardrums. This carefully-edited book includes an introduction, Revealing Mistakes, and questions for discussion at the end of each chapter: I. Eclectic Beginnings - Music, art, philosophy, and philosophical psychology II. Tones, Pitches and Critical Values - Intriguing results in music and memory III. The Octave Illusion - How to confuse the brain with tones IV. Medical Applications - A highly suggestive result for epilepsy patients V. Eyes vs. Ears - The neurophysiological differences between vision and hearing VI. Gut Issues - The impact of discomfort VII. The Scale Illusion - Auditory scene analysis and evolutionary factors VIII. Surrounded by Illusions - From the Glissando Illusion to Tchaikovsky’s 6th IX. Perfect Pitch & Tone Languages - Why Mandarin might help your musicianship X. Towards Monotony? - The tonal implications of globalization XI. Embracing Discomfort - The benefits of being confused About Ideas Roadshow Conversations Series This book is part of an expanding series of 100+ Ideas Roadshow conversations, each one presenting a wealth of candid insights from a leading expert in a relaxed and informal setting to give non-specialists a uniquely accessible window into frontline research and scholarship that wouldn't otherwise be encountered through standard lectures and textbooks. For other books in this series visit our website (https://ideas-on-film.com/ideasroadshow/).

Musical Illusions and Phantom Words

Author : Diana Deutsch
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190206845
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Musical Illusions and Phantom Words written by Diana Deutsch and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-16 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this ground-breaking synthesis of art and science, Diana Deutsch, one of the world's leading experts on the psychology of music, shows how illusions of music and speech--many of which she herself discovered--have fundamentally altered thinking about the brain. These astonishing illusions show that people can differ strikingly in how they hear musical patterns--differences that reflect variations in brain organization as well as influences of language on music perception. Drawing on a wide variety of fields, including psychology, music theory, linguistics, and neuroscience, Deutsch examines questions such as: When an orchestra performs a symphony, what is the "real" music? Is it in the mind of the composer, or the conductor, or different members of the audience? Deutsch also explores extremes of musical ability, and other surprising responses to music and speech. Why is perfect pitch so rare? Why do some people hallucinate music or speech? Why do we hear phantom words and phrases? Why are we subject to stuck tunes, or "earworms"? Why do we hear a spoken phrase as sung just because it is presented repeatedly? In evaluating these questions, she also shows how music and speech are intertwined, and argues that they stem from an early form of communication that had elements of both. Many of the illusions described in the book are so striking and paradoxical that you need to hear them to believe them. The book enables you to listen to the sounds that are described while reading about them.

I'm Not Hanging Noodles on Your Ears and Other Intriguing Idioms From Around the

Author : Bhalla Jag
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1426205309
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book I'm Not Hanging Noodles on Your Ears and Other Intriguing Idioms From Around the written by Bhalla Jag and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-06-16 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I'm not hanging noodles on your ears. In Moscow, this curious, engagingly colourful assertion is common parlance, but unless you're Russian your reaction is probably "Say what?" The same idea in English is equally odd: "I'm not pulling your leg." Both mean: Believe me. As author Jag Bhalla demonstrates, these amusing, often hilarious phrases provide a unique perspective on how different cultures perceive and describe the world. Organized by theme - food, love, romance, and many more - they embody cultural traditions and attitudes, capture linguistic nuance, and shed fascinating light on "the whole ball of wax." For example, when English-speakers are hard at work, we have our "nose to the grindstone," but industrious Chinese toil "with liver and brains spilled on the ground" and busy Indians have "no time to die." This surprising, often thought-provoking little tome is gift-friendly in appearance, a perfect impulse buy for word lovers, travelers, and anyone else who enjoys looking at life in a riotous, unusual way. And we're not hanging noodles from your ear.

Seeing with Your Ears

Author :
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595283950
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (952 download)

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Download or read book Seeing with Your Ears written by and published by iUniverse. This book was released on with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Perk Up Your Ears

Author : Vicki Cobb
Publisher : Millbrook Press
ISBN 13 : 9780761317043
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Perk Up Your Ears written by Vicki Cobb and published by Millbrook Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the sense of hearing, and how the ear works to interpret sound, includes simple experiments to investigate hearing.

Live Well Between Your Ears

Author : Doug Spencer
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1460229231
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Live Well Between Your Ears written by Doug Spencer and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2014-07-18 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do we do what we do? Why can’t we do what we want? How can we achieve and maintain psychological health? What are the consequences, especially for our kids, when science and education take a back seat to myth? Why are we not happier? What makes for good relationships? How can we adapt to the massive changes driven by a shrinking world, a shrinking middle class, and exponential growth of digitization? Helpful answers to many of these kinds of questions are often found in obscure scientific journals. Many of these hidden bits of wisdom offer the best perspective to help us lead psychologically healthy lives, but we never see them. Now, they are boiled down here, in over 100 simple, short, fresh, and sometimes humorous chapters, to help you live well between your ears.

Eyes to See, Ears to Hear

Author : J. Alan Groves
Publisher : P & R Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781596381223
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (812 download)

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Download or read book Eyes to See, Ears to Hear written by J. Alan Groves and published by P & R Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Groves was a pioneer of modern biblical studies, using computers to analyze the Hebrew Old Testament. These articles have been collected to honor his work and also his character as a loving Christian exemplar.

Listen Without Your Ears

Author : Joe Gwerder
Publisher : Archway Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1480801542
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Listen Without Your Ears written by Joe Gwerder and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2013-08-02 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book you will read about common life experiences. You will quickly learn of the uncommon approach by the author. There are many examples offered and questions asked. Much of this information has been received via a strong intuitive process. There may be many surprises along the way that have you contemplating your approach to the world. Without college degrees or religious protocol, this author has learned to “listen” to a much more reliable source. The human condition is changing and it involves everyone, including you. With an open mind and an open heart, you will be placing yourself in a position to “listen” to your own intuition. Do not keep yourself in our current standard of only following the latest trend or relying on the “experts”. Our world is not going to end. It is changing and moving in directions that allow all of us a much more desirable experience should we choose. You are not as far away from knowing how to “listen” to those intuitive thoughts and feelings as you might think. This book is delivered directly from such a place. You will find clarity in these chapters that will cause you to gain understanding and control unlike anything you have known.

Lend Me Your Ears

Author : William Safire
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393040050
Total Pages : 1066 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Lend Me Your Ears written by William Safire and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1997 with total page 1066 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Safire's invaluable and immensely entertaining Lend Me Your Ears established itself instantly as a classic treasury of the greatest speeches in human history. Selected with the instincts of a great speechwriter and language maven, arranged by theme and occasion, each deftly introduced and placed in context, the more than two hundred speeches in this compilation demonstrate the enduring power of human eloquence to inspire, to uplift, and to motivate. For this expanded edition Safire has selected more than twenty new speeches by such figures as President Bill Clinton, Senator Robert Dole, General Colin Powell, Microsoft's Bill Gates, the Dalai Lama, Edward R. Murrow, Alistair Cooke, the Buddha, and the late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. They prove that even in a digital age the most forceful medium of communication is still the human voice speaking directly to the mind, heart, and soul.

Ears to Hear

Author :
Publisher : Church Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780819225641
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (256 download)

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Download or read book Ears to Hear written by and published by Church Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ears to Hear takes readers on a journey through the Old Testament, showing the way God called ordinary people to service, and drawing parallels for ordinary people in the twenty-first century.

Sheep Ears

Author : Sherry Witt
Publisher : WestBow Press
ISBN 13 : 1449799930
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (497 download)

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Download or read book Sheep Ears written by Sherry Witt and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2013-08-30 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection presents impactful short stories about listening to the Good Shepherd and doing His will. What would you do if God told you to stop mowing the grass, get $125, and immediately give it to your neighbor? Could you trust God to bring you a blessing after you were attacked by dogs? How would you handle a coach treating your son unfairly? Has your child ever informed you that he or she was going to cheat on a test? Did you want to mend a relationship, but were unsure of how to do it? Sheep Ears seeks to answer these questions and many more. Learn how the Good Shepherd guides Sherry throughout her everyday occurrences by using her spiritual “sheep ears.” Take a journey through her life and watch the miracles that happen in her ordinary days. Real biblical truths personalize each story with relevant, open-ended questions and scriptural answers. After reading Sheep Ears, your eyes can truly open to the wonder of God in every facet of life. Offering eighty poignant stories, Sheep Ears provides something for everyone in your household. You’ll discover that the answer to every problem that you have is in the Bible. You may have been hearing from God, but never realized it. People want to know—have you got sheep ears, too? “Sheep Ears left me spellbound with real-life lessons that kept me turning pages.” —Patricia Jones, retired educator “Sherry sees God in places that I forget to look. Her writing is down-to-earth and encouraging to those of us who seek His face.” —Shannon Blake, teacher, Ridgway Christian School

The New Superpower for Women

Author : Steve Kardian
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501159240
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The New Superpower for Women written by Steve Kardian and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-08-08 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In The New Superpower for Women, Steve Kardian, a thirty-year veteran of law enforcement, FBI defense tactics instructor, and an expert on the criminal mind, demonstrates how to become a "hard target" and not a "soft target" by simply trusting your gut. Additionally, he shows how the habits of safety can become an integral part of your daily routine"--

The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem on the Subject of Faith

Author : Emanuel Swedenborg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem on the Subject of Faith written by Emanuel Swedenborg and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Works

Author : Henry Fielding
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Works written by Henry Fielding and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Van Gogh's Ear

Author : Bernadette Murphy
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374716021
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book Van Gogh's Ear written by Bernadette Murphy and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2016-07-12 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best-known and most sensational event in Vincent van Gogh’s life is also the least understood. For more than a century, biographers and historians seeking definitive facts about what happened on a December night in Arles have unearthed more questions than answers. Why would an artist at the height of his powers commit such a brutal act? Who was the mysterious “Rachel” to whom he presented his macabre gift? Did he use a razor or a knife? Was it just a segment—or did Van Gogh really lop off his entire ear? In Van Gogh’s Ear, Bernadette Murphy reveals, for the first time, the true story of this long-misunderstood incident, sweeping away decades of myth and giving us a glimpse of a troubled but brilliant artist at his breaking point. Murphy’s detective work takes her from Europe to the United States and back, from the holdings of major museums to the moldering contents of forgotten archives. She braids together her own thrilling journey of discovery with a narrative of Van Gogh’s life in Arles, the sleepy Provençal town where he created his finest work, and vividly reconstructs the world in which he moved—the madams and prostitutes, café patrons and police inspectors, shepherds and bohemian artists. We encounter Van Gogh’s brother and benefactor Theo, his guest and fellow painter Paul Gauguin, and many local subjects of Van Gogh’s paintings, some of whom Murphy identifies for the first time. Strikingly, Murphy uncovers previously unknown information about “Rachel”—and uses it to propose a bold new hypothesis about what was occurring in Van Gogh’s heart and mind as he made a mysterious delivery to her doorstep. As it reopens one of art history’s most famous cold cases, Van Gogh’s Ear becomes a fascinating work of detection. It is also a study of a painter creating his most iconic and revolutionary work, pushing himself ever closer to greatness even as he edged toward madness—and one fateful sweep of the blade that would resonate through the ages.

Calming Upset People with Ear

Author : Bill Eddy
Publisher : Unhooked Books
ISBN 13 : 9781950057207
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (572 download)

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Download or read book Calming Upset People with Ear written by Bill Eddy and published by Unhooked Books. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The level of stress and conflict in today's world is higher than seen in decades. We all can use tools for managing the emotions this has caused. At the same time, there also appear to be more "high conflict" people who are preoccupied with blaming others and verbally venting or attacking those around them. Yet, these upset emotions and conflicts can often be calmed immediately through the use of a simple EAR Statement(TM), a method developed and refined by Bill Eddy over the past fifteen years and taught to hundreds of thousands of professionals and individuals. Following on the success of his widely-known BIFF Response(R) method and books, this new book by Bill Eddy on EAR Statements will come in handy in all kinds of upset situations: family conflicts, workplace disputes, neighbor controversies, and any other setting. A simple statement communicating empathy, attention and/or respect to an angry, sad, mentally ill or any upset person at any time can work wonders in minutes. Yet it's not as easy as it looks. It takes practice and this book gives over twenty examples of applying this method in families, communities, customer relations, volunteer organizations, public service, politics, business, police encounters, racial conflicts, schools, mental health settings, and others. Empathy, attention and respect are what all people are looking for, especially when upset or in a conflict. This book will give you the details of how to calm upset people with EAR every day.