Books like Music, imagination, and culture by Nicholas Cook

In *Musicophilia* Oliver Sacks explores how music shapes our brains, drawing on case studies of patients with neurological disorders and everyday listeners to reveal the science and magic behind our love of sound.

Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969), one of the principal figures associated with the Frankfurt School, wrote extensively on culture, modernity, aesthetics, literature, and -- more than any other subject -- music. To this day, Adorno remains the single most influential contributor to the development of qualitative musical sociology which, together with his nuanced intertextual readings of musical works, gives him broad claim as a continuing force in the study of music. This long-awaited collection of twenty-seven essays represents the full range of Adorno's music writing. Nearly half of the essays appear in English for the first time; all of the essays are fully annotated; and the previously translated essays have been corrected and missing text restored, making this volume the definitive resource on Adorno's musical thought. -- Publisher description.

Anthony Storr examines how music shapes our psychology and unites mind and body, arguing that the art’s patterns bring emotional structure and heal the human psyche.

Explores how the ear and brain transform sound into meaningful information, covering psychoacoustics, music cognition, and computational audio in a single introductory volume.

Nicholas Cook's Analysis Through Composition: Principles of the Classical Style, is a first: a manual of classical-style composition that thoroughly and explicitly incorporates the treatises, exercises, arrangements, compositional sketches, and fragments left behind by eighteenth-century composers