Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. FIRST BREATH vii
3. Contents ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Cosmophony: Sounds of Space
6. First Sounds 9
7. Resonance (1) 10
8. Sound in Space 12
9. Music of the Spheres (1) 17
10. Music of the Spheres (2) 23
11. The Golden Record 30
12. Geophony: Sounds of Earth
13. Rhythm (1) – Planet Waves 37
14. The Loudest Sound 42
15. The Northern Lights 45
16. Volcano 49
17. Thunder 53
18. Listening to a Rainbow 57
19. Biophony: Sounds of Life
20. Rhythm (2) – Body 63
21. Hearing 65
22. Ancient Animal Noises 75
23. Plant 80
24. Insect 83
25. Bee 89
26. Frog 94
27. Bat 97
28. Elephant 102
29. The Thousand- mile Song of the Whale 106
30. Leviathan, or the Sperm Whale 117
31. Blackbird 124
32. Owl 128
33. Nightingale 133
34. Anthropophony: Sounds of Humanity
35. Rhythm (3) – Music and Dance 145
36. Onomatopoeia 152
37. How Language Began 155
38. The Magic Flute 161
39. The Nature of Music 169
40. Harmony 174
41. Strange Musical Instruments 182
42. Sad Songs 192
43. Basho 201
44. Visible Sound 205
45. Plato’s Cave 209
46. Earworms 213
47. Noise Pollution 216
48. The Sounds of Climate Change 223
49. Hell 227
50. Healing with Music 234
51. Healing with Sound 244
52. Bells 249
53. Resonance (2) 265
54. Frontiers 269
55. Silence 277
56. Some Good Sounds 286
57. Thanks 289
58. References and Further Reading 291
59. Permissions 337
60. Index 339