Michael Spitzer
Author
Michael Spitzer is the author of The Musical Human and professor of music at the University of Liverpool, where he leads the department’s work on classical music. A music theorist and musicologist, he is an authority on Beethoven, with interests in aesthetics and critical theory, cognitive metaphor, and music and affect. He organized the International Conferences on Music and Emotion and the International Conference on Analyzing Popular Music and currently chairs the editorial board of Music Analysis Journal.
Michael Spitzer by Ed AlexanderWhat do aliens, apes, and orchestras all have in common? Professor Michael Spitzer explains how they each help us understand the origins of music.
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Expert Michael Spitzer explains how culture can “tune” your musical taste.
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Humans are musical animals four million years in the making, explained by music expert Michael Spitzer.
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The history of music from bone flutes to Beyoncé.
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