Books by Michael Spitzer
“This is one of the best single-volume books about the history of music and how humans engage with music that I’ve come across. It has a great combination of range and concision. There’s just so much to learn from it about the nature of music, with attention on history as far as it might be constructed from the earliest written records and archaeological evidence, right up to the present day.” Read more...
Caspar Henderson, Journalist
Interviews where books by Michael Spitzer were recommended
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The Great Animal Orchestra: Finding the Origins of Music in the World's Wild Places
by Bernie Krause -
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Of Sound Mind: How Our Brain Constructs a Meaningful Sonic World
by Nina Kraus -
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The Musical Human: A History of Life on Earth
by Michael Spitzer -
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Doctor Faustus: The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkuhn As Told by a Friend
by Thomas Mann, translated by John E. Woods -
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The Sounds of Life: How Digital Technology Is Bringing Us Closer to the Worlds of Animals and Plants
by Karen Bakker
The best books on Sound, recommended by Caspar Henderson
The best books on Sound, recommended by Caspar Henderson
Sound encodes incredible amounts of information—not only words, music, and other audible forms of communication, but complex spatial data too. Caspar Henderson, author of the ‘auraculous’ new essay collection The Book of Noises, selects five of the best books on sound, from the buzzing of bees to the ghostly whisper of the aurora.
