MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 02072cam a22002538a 4500
001 2007006810
003 DLC
005 20070313103823.0
008 070215s2007 nyu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2007006810
020 $a9781400040810
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
050 00 $aML3830$b.S13 2007
082 00 $a781/.11$222
100 1 $aSacks, Oliver W.
245 10 $aMusicophilia :$btales of music and the brain /$cby Oliver Sacks.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bKnopf,$c2007.
263 $a0710
300 $ap. cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.
505 0 $aHaunted 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.
650 0 $aMusic$xPsychological aspects.
650 0 $aMusic$xPhysiological aspects.