Musicophilia

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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain

Author	Oliver Sacks
Cover artist	Chip Kidd
Language	English
Publisher	Knopf
Publication date	2007-10-16
ISBN	978-1-4000-4081-0
OCLC	85692744
Dewey Decimal	781/.11 22
LC Class	ML3830 .S13 2007
Preceded by	Oaxaca Journal (2002)
Followed by	The Mind's Eye (2010)

Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain is a 2007 book by Oliver Sacks. It explores a range of psychological and physiological ailments and their connections to music. It is divided into four parts, each with a distinctive theme: Haunted by Music examines mysterious onsets of musicality and musicophilia (and musicophobia); A Range of Musicality looks at musical oddities musical synesthesia; parts three and four are entitled Memory, Movement, and Music and Emotion, Identity, and Music. Each part has between six and eight chapters, each of which is in turn dedicated to a particular case study (or several related case studies) that fit the overarching theme of the section. Four case studies from the book are featured in the NOVA program Musical Minds aired on June 30, 2009.