A review by puppy2789
I Heard There Was a Secret Chord: Music as Medicine by Daniel J. Levitin

informative slow-paced

2.5

Filled with lots of interesting tidbits of information but lacking any real cohesive thesis.   I was going to suggest that each chapter felt like its own independent essay but even within the chapters the author meandered and I never really knew what his point was.  

I have a layperson's knowledge of neuroscience from my past reading history and quite a bit of musical theory, so I didn't find any of this too technical it just wasn't all that interesting.  The author is very knowledgeable (and sometimes a little self-aggrandizing) I just wish all of his facts and studies cited added up to something more coherent and meaningful.