Musicophilia : : Tales of Music and the Brain

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Call Number: 781.11 Sa
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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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 : musicality and blindness ; The key of clear green : synesthesia and music -- Memory, movement, and music. In the moment : music and amnesia ; Speech and song : music therapy and aphasia ; Accidental davening : dyskinesia and cantillation ; Touch heaven : music and Tourette's syndrome ; Keeping time : rhythm and movement ; Kinetic melody: music therapy and parkinson's disease -- 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 ; Indifference to music ; 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 : music therapy and dementia.

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Fascinating submitted by jibkidder on July 3, 2022, 10:27am From start to finish, so many interesting cases of unusual brains and their interactions with music. Addresses so many philosophical questions I have had over the years about music and perception and just constantly shocks. An important book for anyone interested in thinking about the experience of listening to music.

Case Studies submitted by kathscot on June 27, 2023, 7:22am Relates various case studies of how aberrant brains can perceive music. An interesting book, but doesn’t address how the usual brain perceives music, if that is what you are interested in.