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001 2007006810
003 DLC
005 20090611144409.0
008 070215s2007 nyu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2007006810
020 $a9781400040810
020 $a1400040817
035 $a(OCoLC)ocm85692744
035 $a(OCoLC)85692744
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dBAKER$dBTCTA$dWIQ$dC#P$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 /$cOliver Sacks.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bAlfred A. Knopf,$c2007.
300 $axiv, 381 p. ;$c22 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 353-367) 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 ; 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.
650 0 $aMusic$xPsychological aspects.
650 0 $aMusic$xPhysiological aspects.
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0711/2007006810.html
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0801/2007006810-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0801/2007006810-d.html
856 41 $3Sample text$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0801/2007006810-s.html