Musicophilia

Tales of Music and the Brain

By: Oliver Sacks

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Hardcover | 31 October 2007 | Edition Number 1

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In this eagerly awaited new book, the subject of Oliver Sacks' uniquely literate scrutiny is music: our relationship with it, our facility for it, and what this most universal of passions says about us. In chapters examining savants and synesthetics, depressives and musical dreamers, Sacks succeeds not only in articulating the musical experience but in locating it in the human brain. And in so doing he shows, as only he can, both the extraordinary spectrum of human expression and the capacity of music to heal. Wise, compassionate and compellingly readable, 'Musicophilia' promises to alter our conception of who we are and how we function, to lend a fascinating insight into the mysteries of the mind, and to show us what it is to be human.

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"Oliver Sacks is that rare creature, a respected man of science who is also a mean storyteller." --"Toronto Star" "From the Hardcover edition."

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Haunted by Music
A Bolt from the Blue: Sudden Musicophilia	p. 3
A Strangely Familiar Feeling: Musical Seizures	p. 18
Fear of Music: Musicogenic Epilepsy	p. 23
Music on the Brain: Imagery and Imagination	p. 30
Brainworms, Sticky Music, and Catchy Tunes	p. 41
Musical Hallucinations	p. 49
A Range of Musicality
Sense and Sensibility: A Range of Musicality	p. 89
Things Fall Apart: Amusia and Dysharmonia	p. 98
Papa Blows His Nose in G: Absolute Pitch	p. 120
Pitch Imperfect: Cochlear Amusia	p. 131
In Living Stereo: Why We Have Two Ears	p. 143
Two Thousand Operas: Musical Savants	p. 151
An Auditory World: Music and Blindness	p. 160
The Key of Clear Green: Synesthesia and Music	p. 165
Memory, Movement, and Music
In the Moment: Music and Amnesia	p. 187
Speech and Song: Aphasia and Music Therapy	p. 214
Accidental Davening: Dyskinesia and Cantillation	p. 224
Come Together: Music and Tourette's Syndrome	p. 226
Keeping Time: Rhythm and Movement	p. 233
Kinetic Melody: Parkinson's Disease and Music Therapy	p. 248
Phantom Fingers: The Case of the One-Armed Pianist	p. 259
Athletes of the Small Muscles: Musician's Dystonia	p. 264
Emotion, Identity, and Music
Awake and Asleep: Musical Dreams	p. 279
Seduction and Indifference	p. 285
Lamentations: Music and Depression	p. 295
The Case of Harry S.: Music and Emotion	p. 301
Irrepressible: Music and the Temporal Lobes	p. 305
A Hypermusical Species: Williams Syndrome	p. 317
Music and Identity: Dementia and Music Therapy	p. 335
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