Research Catalog

Title

Music, neurology, and neuroscience : historical connections and perspectives / edited by Eckart Altenmüller, Stanley Finger, François Boller.

Publication

Amsterdam : Elsevier, 2015.

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Details

Additional Authors

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

Description

xvii, 422 pages : illustrations, portraits; 25 cm

Series Statement

Progress in brain research, 0079-6123 ; volume 216

Uniform Title

Progress in brain research ; v. 216.

Subjects

• Neurosciences
• Music > Psychological aspects
• Musical perception
• Music > Physiological aspects

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Part 1. History of neuroscience. Franz Joseph Gall and music : the faculty and the bump / Paul Eling ; Stanley Finger ; Harry Whitaker -- Music, neurology, and psychology in the nineteenth century / Amy B. Graziano ; Julene K. Johnson.
• Part 2. Aphasia and singing. Singing by speechless (aphasic) children : Victorian medical observations / Marjorie Perlman Lorch ; Samuel H. Greenblatt -- Some early cases of aphasia and the capacity to sing / Julene K. Johnson ; Amy B. Graziano.
• Part 3. Pathological connections. Benjamin Franklin and his glass armonica : from music as therapeutic to pathological / Stanley Finger ; William Zeitler -- Historical perspective on music as a cause of disease / James Kennaway.
• Part 4. Great musicians and their neurological disorders. Stroke, music, and creative output : Alfred Schnittke and other composers / Yuri Zagvazdin -- Hector Berlioz and his Vesuvius : an analysis of historical evidence from an epileptological perspective / Dirk-Matthias Altenmüller -- Alexander Scriabin : his chronic right-hand pain and its impact on his piano compositions / Eckart Altenmüller -- Frederick Delius : controversies regarding his neurological disorer and its impact on his compositional output / Richard J. Lederman -- Robert Schumann in the psychiatric hospital at Endenich / Reinhard Steinberg -- Mozart at play : the limitations of attributing the etiology of genius to Tourette syndrome and mental illness / Henry Powell ; Howard I. Kushner -- Paul Wittgenstein's right arm his phantom : the saga of a famous concert pianist and his amputation / François Boller ; Julien Bogousslavsky -- Georg Friedrich Händel : a case of large vessel disease with complications in the eighteenth century / Hansjörg Bäzner -- Joseph Haydn's encephalopathy : new aspects / Christian Blahek ; Hansjörg Bäzner ; Michael G. Hennerici -- Organists and organ music composers / Christian Foerch ; Michael G. Hennerici -- Frédéric Chopin and his neuropsychiatric problems / Axel Karenberg.
• Part 5. Opera as a window to neurology and neuroscience. Somnambulism in Verdi's Macbeth and Bellini's La sonnambula : opera, sleepwalking, and medicine / Stanley Finger ; Vittorio Alessandro Sironi ; Michele Augusto Riva -- Opera and neuroscience / Lorenzo Lorusso ; Antonia Francesca Franchini ; Alessandro Porro.

Call Number

JME 16-224

ISBN

• 9780444633996
• 0444633995

OCLC

898052290

Title

Music, neurology, and neuroscience : historical connections and perspectives / edited by Eckart Altenmüller, Stanley Finger, François Boller.

Publisher

Amsterdam : Elsevier, 2015.

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Progress in brain research, 0079-6123 ; volume 216

Progress in brain research ; v. 216.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Added Author

Altenmüller, Eckart, editor.

Finger, Stanley, editor.

Boller, François, editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Music, neurology, and neuroscience. First edition. Amsterdam : Elsevier, 2015 9780444634108 (OCoLC)903489058

Research Call Number

JME 16-224