Resonance: Why Music Moves Us

"This moving, incisive book is a great reminder of music's power as a universal connector."

-Kirkus Reviews

An Alzheimer's patient who can't find the bathroom can still sing a hymn she learned in 1963. Infants two days old already prefer consonant intervals to dissonant ones, before culture has had a chance to teach them anything. Every culture we have ever found makes music, independently, without being taught.

We call it entertainment.

Composer and synesthete Ron K. Miller thinks that is the ...