Musicophilia .

🎶Music and the brain, both are endlessly fascinating subjects.🎶

As a student who is ambitious to be a Psychological Therapist in Music, I've read this many times,as much as possible that i can...📚📖️

I had high expectation of Musicophilia, the latest offering from neurologists and prolific author Oliver Sacks.✒

Sacks himself is the best part of Musicophilia. He richly documents his own life in the book and reveals highly personal experiences. The photograph of him on the cover of the book which shows him wearing headphones, eyes closed , clearly enchanted as he listens to Alfred Brendel perform Beethoven's pathetique Sonata- makes a positive impression that is borne out by the contents of the book. 📖️🎼

The Author Of The Book MUSICOPHILIA

Oliver Sacks

Sacks's voice throughout is steady and erudite but never pontifical. He is neither self-conscious nor self-promoting.The preface gives a good idea of what the book will deliver.🔊

In it Sacks explains that he wants to convey the insights gleaned from the "enormous and rapidly growing body of work on the neural underpinnings of musical perception and imagery,and the complex and often bizarre disorders to which these are prone."

In here we can observe that the book is partly divided in to 3 main parts.

🎶 Part one - " Haunted by music"

🎶Part two - " A range of Musicality"

🎶Part Three - " Memory,Movement and Music " (Triple M)

📖️In part one, it begins with the strange case of ' Tony Cicoria', a nonmusical, middle aged man who was consumed by a love of music after being hit by lightening💥 According to the book it was a trauma and subsequent " conversion "to music.🎶🎧

📖️In part Two, A Range of Musicality covers a wider variety of topics, but unfortunately most of theories that he presented to us were old as well as some of chapters offer little, that is new. In Chapter 13..., which is five pages long, speaks about the sharpness of a hearing of a blind man. In Chapter 8... he expresses the idea of a highly specific impairment of the ability to hear harmony, with the ability to understand melody left intact.🎧💆

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📖️In Final Part - Part Three brings us into the underappreciated realm of music therapy.

In chapter 16...... it explains how " melodic intonation therapy" is being used to help expressive aphasic patients ( those who are unable to express their thoughts verbally following a stroke or other cerebral incident) once again become capable of fluent speech.🙇🤷

However,To readers who are unfamiliar with neuroscience ( as all of us) and music behaviour ( not like us)..., Musicophilia may be something of a revelation ,as well as a motivation for those who are looking for continue their career by doing Music and willing to be a Therapist in Music. 👩‍⚕‍

Finally .. I recommend this book to all of you,

If you can find it 📖️