Musicophilia :
Sacks, Oliver, 1933-2015
Musicophilia : tales of music and the brain / Oliver Sacks. - 425 pages ; 20 cm.
Originally published: 2007.
Part I. Haunted by music. A bolt from the blue : sudden musicophilia -- A strangely familiar feeling : musical seizures -- Fear of music : musicogenic epilepsy -- Music on the brain : imagery and imagination -- Brainworms, sticky music and catchy tunes -- Musical hallucinations -- Part II. A range of musicality. Sense and sensibility : a range of musicality -- Things fall apart : amusia and dysharmonia -- Papa blows his nose in G : absolute pitch -- Pitch imperfect : cochlear amusia -- In living stereo : why we have two ears -- Two thousand operas : musical savants -- An auditory world : music and blindness -- The key of clear green : synesthesia and music -- Part III. Memory, movement, and music. In the moment : music and amnesia -- Speech and song : aphasia and music therapy -- Accidental davening : dyskinesia and cantillation -- Come together : music and Tourette's Syndrome -- Keeping time : rhythm and movement -- Kinetic melody: Parkinson's disease and music therapy -- Phantom fingers: the case of the one-armed pianist -- Athletes of the small muscles : musician's dystonia -- Part IV. Emotion, identity, and music. Awake and asleep : musical dreams ; Seduction and indifference -- Lamentations : music and depression -- The case of Harry S. : music and emotion -- Irrepressible : music and the temporal lobes -- A hypermusical species : Williams Syndrome -- Music and identity : dementia and music therapy.
9780330418386
Music--Physiological aspects
ML3830 / .S13 2008
Musicophilia : tales of music and the brain / Oliver Sacks. - 425 pages ; 20 cm.
Originally published: 2007.
Part I. Haunted by music. A bolt from the blue : sudden musicophilia -- A strangely familiar feeling : musical seizures -- Fear of music : musicogenic epilepsy -- Music on the brain : imagery and imagination -- Brainworms, sticky music and catchy tunes -- Musical hallucinations -- Part II. A range of musicality. Sense and sensibility : a range of musicality -- Things fall apart : amusia and dysharmonia -- Papa blows his nose in G : absolute pitch -- Pitch imperfect : cochlear amusia -- In living stereo : why we have two ears -- Two thousand operas : musical savants -- An auditory world : music and blindness -- The key of clear green : synesthesia and music -- Part III. Memory, movement, and music. In the moment : music and amnesia -- Speech and song : aphasia and music therapy -- Accidental davening : dyskinesia and cantillation -- Come together : music and Tourette's Syndrome -- Keeping time : rhythm and movement -- Kinetic melody: Parkinson's disease and music therapy -- Phantom fingers: the case of the one-armed pianist -- Athletes of the small muscles : musician's dystonia -- Part IV. Emotion, identity, and music. Awake and asleep : musical dreams ; Seduction and indifference -- Lamentations : music and depression -- The case of Harry S. : music and emotion -- Irrepressible : music and the temporal lobes -- A hypermusical species : Williams Syndrome -- Music and identity : dementia and music therapy.
9780330418386
Music--Physiological aspects
ML3830 / .S13 2008
