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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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Musicophilia, Oliver Sacks
- Sprache
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2007
- Einband
- (Paperback)
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- Titel
- Musicophilia
- Untertitel
- Tales of Music and the Brain
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Oliver Sacks
- Verlag
- Picador
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2007
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 381
- ISBN10
- 0330444360
- ISBN13
- 9780330444361
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Sachbücher, Psychologische Thematik, Musikalische Thematik, Wissenschaft, Medizin, Neurowissenschaft
- Erstveröffentlichung
- 2008
- Originaltitel
- Musicophilia
- Bewertung
- 4,05 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- 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.