Sacks, Oliver W.
Musicophilia : tales of music and the brain / Oliver Sacks. - 1st ed. - New York : Knopf, 2007. - xiv, 381 p. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 353-367) and index.
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 ; Brain worms, 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 : asphia 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 indiference ; 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.
Library Journal Publisher's Weekly Booklist
Oliver Sacks explores the power of music in the lives of ordinary people, as well as individuals with neurological and other conditions.
Adult Follett Library Resources
9781400040810 1400040817
2007006810
Music--Psychological aspects.
Music--Physiological aspects.
Music--Psychological aspects.
Music--Physiological aspects.
ML3830 / .S13 2007
781/.11
Musicophilia : tales of music and the brain / Oliver Sacks. - 1st ed. - New York : Knopf, 2007. - xiv, 381 p. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 353-367) and index.
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 ; Brain worms, 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 : asphia 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 indiference ; 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.
Library Journal Publisher's Weekly Booklist
Oliver Sacks explores the power of music in the lives of ordinary people, as well as individuals with neurological and other conditions.
Adult Follett Library Resources
9781400040810 1400040817
2007006810
Music--Psychological aspects.
Music--Physiological aspects.
Music--Psychological aspects.
Music--Physiological aspects.
ML3830 / .S13 2007
781/.11