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Table of Contents Introduction Part One: Haunted by Music 1. A Bolt from the Blue: Sudden Musicophilia 1 2. A Strangely Familiar Feeling: Musical Seizures 18 3. Fear of Music: Musicogenic Epilepsy 24 4. Music on the Brain: Imagery and Imagination 34 5. Brain Worms, Sticky Music and Catchy Tunes 48 6. Musical Hallucinations 60 Part Two: A Range of Musicality 7. Sense and Sensibility: A Range of Musicality 118 8. Things Fall Apart: Amusia and Dysharmonia 126 9. Papa Blows his Nose in G: Absolute Pitch 157 10. Pitch Imperfect: Cochlear Amusia 173 11. In Living Stereo: Why We Have Two Ears 189 12. Two Thousand Operas: Musical Savants 197 13. An Auditory World: Musicality and Blindness 208 14. The Key of Clear Green: Synesthesia and Music 215 Part Three: Memory, Movement, and Music 15. In the Moment: Music and Amnesia 244 16. Speech and Song: Music Therapy and Aphasia 282 17. Accidental Davening: Dyskinesia and Cantillation 293 18. Touch Heaven: Music and Tourette's Syndrome 295 19. Keeping Time: Rhythm and Movement 304 20. Kinetic Melody: Music Therapy and Parkinson's Disease 320 21. Phantom Fingers: The Case of the One-Armed Pianist 337 22. Athletes of the Small Muscles: Musician's Dystonia 341 Part Four: Emotion, Identity, and Music 23. Awake and Asleep: Musical Dreams 359 24. Indifference to Music 368 25. Lamentations: Music and Depression 383 26. The Case of Harry S.: Music and Emotion 390 27. Irrepressible: Music and the Temporal Lobes 395 28. A Hypermusical Species: Williams Syndrome 410 29. Music and Identity: Music Therapy and Dementia 435 Bibliography 455 Index 486
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Music -- Psychological aspects.
Music -- Physiological aspects.