The first British book on neurology in music was published over 30
years ago. Edited by Drs Macdonald Critchley and R A Henson, it was
entitled Music and the Brain (published by Wm Heinemann Medical
Books), but all of its contributors are now either retired or
deceased. Since then, there has been an increasing amount of
research, and the present volume includes the most significant of
these advances. The book begins with the evolutionary basis of
meaning in music and continues with the historical perspectives,
after which the human nervous system is compared to a clavichord,
highlighting the use of metaphor in the history of modern
neurology. It discusses the neurologist in the concert hall as well
as the musician at the bedside by showing how neurology enriches
musical perception, the main theme being the cerebral localisation
of music production and perception. The book also emphasises the
value of teaching singing to treat speech disorders and the
importance of nerve compression in musicians, the final chapter
being on recent techniques of imaging the musical brain.
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