Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, Revised and Expanded Edition
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Revised and Expanded
With the same trademark compassion and erudition he brought to The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks explores the place composition 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 composition.
Illuminating, inspiring, and utterly unforgettable, Musicophilia is Oliver Sacks’ latest masterpiece.Amazon.com Review
Amazon Best of the Month, December 2007: Legendary R&B icon Ray Charles claimed that he was “born with composition inside me,” and neurologist Oliver Sacks believes Ray may have been right. Musicophilia: Tales of Composition and the Brain examines the extreme effects of composition on the human brain and how lives can be utterly transformed by the simplest of harmonies. With clinical studies covering the tragic (individuals afflicted by an inability to connect with any melody) and triumphant (Alzheimer’s patients who find order and comfort through composition), Sacks provides an erudite look at the notion that humans are truly a “musical species.” –Dave Callanan
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Is this guy adage there are people who want to bone innocent composition? That’d be pretty hard; e.g., no friction.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
I read it in french.
I started this book pleasure and spirit, impassioned by the theme… The book starts rather well with the first chapter then what a disappointment!
The leader who starts with a scientific step ends up shelling a catalog of pathologies having more or less a relationship with the theme, then that leaves in all the directions and the end is well neglected. He spends more time giving his opinion or tells his own adventures (What him arrived from there at this Mister between the musical hallucinations until the loss of pleasure at the listening of the composition!.) He supports sometimes his remarks by mails sent by people who quotes their own experiences. What a step pseudo-scientist! And then, he can thank these people for having written a quarter of the book. He should transfer royalties to them! In fleeting, that one would have been more pleased if Antonio Damasio Descartes’ Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain or Christophe André had written the book so much this one quickly becomes uninteresting.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Sacks’ book is incredible, very appealing topic and fantastic read. The video clips are also very excellent and his interview on NPR was riveting.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
This book is so poorly written as to make it’s fascinating theme matter nearly uninteresting. Oliver Sacks is so narcissistic, self absorbed and self referential that is it a distraction. Keep looking for the essential book on composition and the brain.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
The major problem this books faces is that we don’t know the workings of the brain, so the chapters are merely phenomenological expositions of various abnormalities which in most (but not all) cases tell in some way to musical abilities. In none of these cases do we know what the underlying causes of the disorders are and so this is just a collection of anecdotal tales about human musical oddities.
The footnotes are also just painful to read as there are so many of them, and as one of the previous reviewers said they make points that should have been in the main text
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5