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Kaban ng Hiyas
Congressional Library

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Kaban ng Hiyas
Congressional Library

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psychology

Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain

Author

Oliver Sacks

Call Number

PL 550590 5A 8594 2021

Accession Number

28091pl

PUBLICATION YEAR

2008

Keywords

Music, Brain, Neurology, Amusia, Williams syndrome

Book Summary

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. 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, Musicophilia is Oliver Sacks’ latest masterpiece.

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