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Musicophilia : tales of music and the brain
- Title
- Musicophilia : tales of music and the brain / Oliver Sacks.
- Author
- Sacks, Oliver, 1933-2015.
- Publication
- London : Picador, 2007.
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Details
- Description
- xiv, 381 p.; 25 cm.
- Subjects
- Note
- On t.p. in the word Musicophilia "s" appears as a segno, "p" appears as a minim and a pause sign appears over each "i."
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 353-367) and index.
- Contents
- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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.
- Call Number
- JME 08-225
- ISBN
- 9780330418379 (hbk.)
- 0330418378 (hbk.)
- 9780330444361 (pbk.)
- 0330444360 (pbk.)
- OCLC
- 180496935
- Author
- Sacks, Oliver, 1933-2015.
- Title
- Musicophilia : tales of music and the brain / Oliver Sacks.
- Imprint
- London : Picador, 2007.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 353-367) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JME 08-225