Historical connections and perspectives

Author(s)

• Altenmüller, Eckart
• Finger, Stanley
• Boller, François

Bibliographic Information

Historical connections and perspectives

edited by Eckart Altenmüller, Stanley Finger, François Boller

（Progress in brain research, v. 216 . Music, neurology, and neuroscience）

Elsevier, 2015

• hbk.

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Music, Neurology, and Neuroscience: Historical Connections and Perspectives provides a broad and comprehensive discussion of history and new discoveries regarding music and the brain, presenting a multidisciplinary overview on music processing, its effects on brain plasticity, and the healing power of music in neurological and psychiatric disorders. In this context, the disorders that plagued famous musicians and how they affected both performance and composition are critically discussed, as is music as medicine and its potential health hazard. Additional topics, including the way music fits into early conceptions of localization of function in the brain, its cultural roots in evolution, and its important roles in societies and educational systems are also explored.

Table of Contents

Franz Joseph Gall and Music: The Faculty and the Bump Music, Neurology and Psychology in the 19th Century Singing by Speechless (Aphasic) Children: Victorian Medical Observations Some Early Cases of Aphasia and the Capacity to Sing Benjamin Franklin and his Glass Armonica: From Music as Therapeutic to Pathological Historical Perspectives on Music as a Cause of Disease Stroke, Music and Creative Output: Alfred Schnittke and other Composers Hector Berlioz and His Vesuvius: An Analysis of Historical Evidence from an Epileptological Perspective Alexander Scriabin: His Chronic Right Hand Pain and its Impact on his Piano Compositions Frederick Delius: Controversies Regarding his Neurological Disorder and its Impact on his Compositional Output Robert Schumann in the Psychiatric Hospital at Endenich Mozart at Play: The Limitations of Attributing the Etiology of Genius to Tourette Syndrome and Mental Illness Paul Wittgenstein's Right arm and his Phantom: The Saga of a Famous Concert Pianist and his Amputation Georg Friedrich Handel - A Case of Large Vessel Disease with Complications in the 18th Century Joseph Haydn's Encephalopathy: New Aspects Organists and Organ Music Composers Frederic Chopin and his Neuropsychiatric Problems Somnambulism in Verdi's Macbeth and Bellini's La Sonnambula: Opera, Sleepwalking, and Medicine Opera and Neuroscience

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BB18377972
• ISBN:
  • 9780444633996
• Country Code: ne
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Amsterdam
• Pages/Volumes: xvii, 422 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • DC23 : 781.11
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Music -- Psychological aspects
  • LCSH : Music -- Physiological aspects
  • LCSH : Musical perception
  • LCSH : Neurosciences
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00079015