Summary Of This Is Your Brain On Music By Daniel J. Levitin

The purpose of this work is to express and show which processes and methodology should be adopted to translate musical texts from English into Italian. In particular, it is based on the translation into Italian of two chapters of This Is Your Brain on Music, by Daniel J. Levitin; the translation has been meanwhile compared to a previous Italian version by Susanna Bourlot,
Fatti di musica. La scienza di un’ossessione umana. The language of music, as it has been shown, has many polysemous words which, in many cases, have to be explained and differentiated, depending on the context used.
The second part focuses on the musical terms, on the explanation of their translation and their definitions, and finally on the didactical texts which have been