understanding brain musicality
Mr. Stack has made an important contribution to the fascinating world of brain working , it helps to understand the enormous possibilities inside us
Considering the part music plays in the recovery of extremely mentality disabled patients
Considering the part music plays in the recovery of extremely mentality disabled patients, which is not a new phenomenon, it has recently been explored once again by Oliver Sacks, physician and author, in his new book Musicophilia Tales of Music and the Brain.
There are remarkable examples of patients who were considered feeble, unable to care for themselves, unable to walk or do anything other than sit, and yet these same people when exposed to music were able to astonish those who cared for them either by family or professionals. Sacks explored many different methods of treatment, but in his unique style of writing has been able annotate the case histories of many types of patients who had been virtually given a hopeless life ... Read More
Symphonic!
Is this guy saying there are people who want to bone innocent music? That'd be pretty hard; e.g., no friction.
Very informative
As a musician and a teacher, I found Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, Revised and Expanded Edition to be a fascinating read. It's accessible without a lot of twenty-five dollar words found in some medical texts.
Disturbances
Ulysses Grant knew two songs: one was the Yankee Doodle, the other was not. That's my kind of pun. I keep telling my Chinese friends that I do not believe in their tones. Tones are just a trick to fool dumb foreigners like me into thinking that the language is unlearnable.
Nabokov, one of my main heroes, tells us in his memoirs that music, for him, was just an arbitrary succession of more or less irritating sounds.
In other words, I am not left alone with my amusia.
I am happy that my affliction is not quite as bad as Nabokov's (whose son became an opera singer, by the way). I do enjoy listening to music and I love concerts. I just don't hear tones and I was the worse singer in living memory in my high school. Only the Bundeswehr ... Read More
