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Music, Motor Control and the Brain (Hardcover)
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Music, Motor Control and the Brain (Hardcover)
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The motor actions that can be witnessed as a virtuoso musician
performs can be so fast, so accomplished, so precise, as to seem
somehow superhuman. The musician has to produce the movements,
monitor those they have already made and the subsequent result,
co-ordinate their hands, fingers, eyes, and perhaps throat and
diaphragm. These achievements are of course the product of
hundreds, even thousands of hours of practice-playing scales,
studies, time and time again. But those hours of practice by no
means guarantee that great musicianship will result. This technical
prowess has to be combined with a range of other, perhaps, less
tangible qualities. This book explores the secrets of musical
virtuosity. It presents a comprehensive account of music and motor
cognition, examining the neural basis of music making - our
understanding of which is just starting to be enhanced by brain
imaging. It considers the effect on our brains of prolonged music
making. It explores the motor processes across a range of
instruments (vocal, string, wind, percussion) and within different
performance situations. It also considers what happens when things
start to go wrong - why motor problems occur in so many
professional musicians in later life, and the possible therapies
for such problems. Music is a topic of considerable interest within
the brain sciences. With contributions from leading psychologists,
neuroscientists, and neurologists, this book makes a unique
contribution to our understanding of music and the brain.
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