| Description |
1 videodisc (approximately 120 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Note |
Copyright date on credit frame: 2008; copyright date on disc label: 2009. |
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Bonus features: additional performances and interviews. |
| Credits |
Executive producers, Elena Mannes, Margaret Smilow ; editor, Donna Marino ; director of photography, Dewald Aukema ; original music, Michael Bacon. |
| Cast |
Audra McDonald, narrator ; Bobby McFerrin, Daniel Levitin, hosts. |
| Summary |
The music instinct provides a ground-breaking exploration into how and why the human organism is moved by the undeniable effect of music, and the deep connection between music and our bodies and brains. The program follows visionary researchers and accomplished musicians to the crossroads of science and culture in search of answers to music's deep mysteries. |
| Contents |
Feeling the sound -- The brain plays music -- Our ancestors & song -- The math of music -- Music : born & bred -- Playing our emotions -- Music changes the brain -- Can music make us smarter? -- Can music heal? -- Music & language -- Music & evolution -- A resonant world. |
| Audience |
Not rated. |
| System Details |
DVD, region 1, NTSC; widescreen (enhanced for 16x9 TVs); stereo. |
| Language |
In English; closed-captioned for the hearing impaired. |
| Note |
GMD: videorecording. |
| Subject |
Music -- psychology.
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Brain -- physiology.
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| Genre/Form |
Documentary television programs.
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Science television programs.
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Nonfiction television programs.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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| Subject |
Music -- Physiological effect.
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Music -- Psychological aspects.
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| Added Author |
Mannes, Elena.
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Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)
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WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.)
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Mannes Productions, Inc.
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ARTE France.
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| Added Title |
Science & song |
| ISBN |
0793670829 |
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9780793670826 |
| Standard No. |
841887010832 |
| Music No. |
MISS601 PBS |
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