tales of music and the brain Sacks, Oliver 1933-2015 creator text bibliography nyu New York Vintage Books 2008 Rev. and expanded, 1st Vintage Books ed. monographic eng

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425 p. ; 21 cm. xv, 425 p. 21 cm. 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. Oliver Sacks. Includes bibliographical references (p.393-409) and index. Music Psychological aspects ML3830 .S13 2008 781.11 S1218m 1400033535 (pbk.) 9781400033539 2008279138 http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0711/2007006810.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0801/2007006810-d.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0801/2007006810-s.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0711/2007006810.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0801/2007006810-d.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0801/2007006810-s.html BTCTA 081119 20220606151112.0 15527626