New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2023. Larry S. Sherman, a neuroscientist and lifelong musician, and Dennis Plies, a professional musician and teacher, collaborate to show how our brains and music work in harmony. They consider music in all the ways we encounter it - teaching, learning, practicing, listening, composing, improvising, and performing - in terms of neuroscience as well as music pedagogy, showing how the brain functions and even changes in the process.