Music in Your Head

I asked some questions, and while expecting somebody slightly less baffled than me to offer up a few answers of the top of their head, it turns out someone very smart in Montreal does have most of the answers having studied a fair number of heads.

In an article entitled Music of the Hemispheres published on the last day of 2006 in the New York Times, Clive Thompson writes about the work of Canadian cognitive scientist Daniel Levitin on the brain science of music. Levitin's book, Your Brain on Music, would seem to have the answer to lots of my questions about music, and I hope to read it soon. Meanwhile I'll keep listening and wondering.

Something I will probably never understand is how to write a piece of music that can do what a suite by JS Bach or a scream by James Brown can do for me.

Play on.