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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain

Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain

Sacks, Oliver

Paperback

Medical ReferenceMusic Instruction: GeneralGeneral Psychology

Publisher Price: $20.00

ISBN10: 1400033535
ISBN13: 9781400033539
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Sep 23 2008
Pages: 448
Weight: 1.04
Height: 1.10 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
NATIONAL 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.

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