Open Books Open Minds - Musicophilia : Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks

Book Review. Musicophilia: tales of music and the brain. by Bengt Lagerkvist and Ma ̈rith Bergstro ̈m-Isacsson
"Can you blow your nose in G-major? What colour does your brain associate with Thursday, the figure five or E-minor? These questions among many others are discussed by the neurologist Oliver Sacks ..."

Review of Oliver Sacks. Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, by Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis
"Music has long stymied those who sought to completely and finally understand it, leading 18th-century theorists to postulate an undertone series that does not occur in nature ..."

Words and Music: Two ways of thinking about what our brains can do. By: Hecht, Jennifer Michael
"Musicophilia is a Chopin mazurka recital of a book, a bunch of pattern pieces, fast, inventive, and weirdly beautiful--repetitive attacks on a boundless idea. ..."

Musical Maladies by Norman M. Weinberger
"Sacks himself is the best part of Musicophilia. He richly documents his own life in the book and reveals highly personal experiences..."

Musicophilia: Music and The Brain. review by Peter Kristian Mose
"Sacks plays the role of kindly physician with clipboard, writing up his case notes of many an intriguing patient for whom music has played a large neurological role."

Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain. Reviewed by Adele Baruch-Runyon
"Musicophilia begins as an examination of music and its interaction with the human nervous system; it expands to consider profound questions related to music and its role in the continuity of a sense of self. ..."

Book Review: Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
"When I was an infant, my father set up a little record player near my crib. ... he wanted to make certain that I had a chance at the career he had been denied. I became a pianist, composer, and teacher ..."

The Sounds of Music by Gerard McBurney
"Sacks introduces us to Mrs. L, who throughout her life has found music meaningless and intolerable. At last she has contacted one of Mr. Sacks' colleagues ..."