Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the BrainNATIONAL BESTSELLER • With the same trademark compassion and erudition he brought to The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks explores the place music occupies in the brain and how it affects the human condition. “Powerful and compassionate. . . . A book that not only contributes to our understanding of the elusive magic of music but also illuminates the strange workings, and misfirings, of the human mind.” —The New York Times In Musicophilia, he shows us a variety of what he calls “musical misalignments.” Among them: a man struck by lightning who suddenly desires to become a pianist at the age of forty-two; an entire group of children with Williams syndrome, who are hypermusical from birth; people with “amusia,” to whom a symphony sounds like the clattering of pots and pans; and a man whose memory spans only seven seconds-for everything but music. Illuminating, inspiring, and utterly unforgettable. |
Contents
Sudden Musicophilia | 3 |
Musical Seizures | 19 |
Musicogenic Epilepsy | 24 |
Imagery and Imagination | 32 |
s Brainworms Sticky Music and Catchy Tunes | 44 |
Musical Hallucinations | 54 |
A Range of Musicality | 94 |
A Range of Musicality | 95 |
Aphasia and Music Therapy | 232 |
Dyskinesia and Cantillation | 243 |
Rhythm and Movement | 254 |
Parkinsons Disease and Music Therapy | 270 |
The Case of the OneArmed Pianist | 284 |
Musical Dreams | 303 |
Seduction and Indifference | 312 |
Music Madness and Melancholia | 324 |
Amusia and Dysharmonia | 105 |
Absolute Pitch | 129 |
Cochlear Amusia | 140 |
Why We Have Two Ears | 152 |
Musical Savants | 162 |
Music and Blindness | 171 |
Synesthesia and Music | 177 |
Music and Amnesia | 201 |
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