(An ability to read music will help in understanding these sections.) Gasser’s writing is passionate and generally accessible, though he sometimes stumbles over the inherent difficulty of conveying music through musicology.
Musicologist and composer Gasser, who headed Pandora Radio’s Music Genome Project, investigates how music’s objective properties underlie subjective preferences in a deep dredge that covers the physics of sonic vibrations principles of melody, harmony, and rhythm the science of how the brain processes music and connects it with emotions sociological theories of musical preferences, class, and fan subcultures and a disquisition on biology and “the conceptual link between pluripotent stem cells and theme and variation.” Woven in are analyses of musical genres-pop, rock, jazz, hip-hop, electronica, world music, and classical-with exegeses of representative scored examples.
The mystery of why music moves people gets a stimulating survey in this expansive treatise.
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