So I was perusing my bookshelfs and came across some old books from grad school that might interest some folks, especially those interested in the "abstract" quality of music and also oral literacy:
"Music, the Brain and Ecstasy" by Robert Jourdain
"Orality and Literacy" by Walter Ong
'The Music Lesson' is a really good one if you haven' read it already. I still can't get the karma of being able to mentally commune with animals though.
'Musicophilia' is a very interesting book. Well written. Problem is it is 400 pages that could bave been done in 200. You think the author has made his point and he comes at it again. Enuf already!
Music and society in Lowland Scotland in the 18th C
Bagpipes. Cheape
the Highland pipe and Scottish Society, Donaldson
Traditional Gaelic Bagipeing. Gibson
the Highland Bagpipe in Nova Scotia. Shears
Pipers. Donaldson
The story Of Irish Music. ONeill
Violin Mastery. Martens editor
Thats the last month or 2s reading. Very informative and Interesting.... Ah to me I love reading and History.
I'm reading Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks at the moment and this paragraph from his book I found fascinating.
p. 94
With the development of brain imaging in the 1990's it became possible to visualize the brains of musicians and to compare them with the brains of nonmusicians. Using MRI morphometry, Gottfried Schlaug of Harvard and his colleagues made careful comparisons of the sizes of various brain structures. In 1995 they published a paper showing that the corpus callosum, the great commissure that connects the two hemispheres of the brain, is enlarged in professional musicians and that a part of the auditory cortex, the planum temporale, has an asymmetric enlargement in musicians with absolute pitch. Schlaug et. al. went on to show increased volumes of gray matter in motor, auditory, and visuospatial areas of the cortex, as well as in the cerebellum. Anatomists today would be hard pressed to identify the brain of a visual artist, a writer or a mathematician -- but they could recognize the brain of a professional musician without a moment's hesitation.
Some interesting reads...
Some interesting reads...
So I was perusing my bookshelfs and came across some old books from grad school that might interest some folks, especially those interested in the "abstract" quality of music and also oral literacy:
"Music, the Brain and Ecstasy" by Robert Jourdain
"Orality and Literacy" by Walter Ong
# Posted on July 10th 2009 by Fiddlechick7
Re: Some interesting reads...
Another interesting book along these lines:
"Musicophilia" by Dr. Oliver Sacks about the brain and music.
# Posted on July 10th 2009 by MaryMargaret
Re: Some interesting reads...
I've been wanting to read that one... it's on my list. Saw a documetary on it the other day. Interesting stuff.
# Posted on July 10th 2009 by Fiddlechick7
Re: Some interesting reads...
Ivor Browne - 'Music and Madness'.
# Posted on July 10th 2009 by Floss the Tethers
Re: Some interesting reads...
Check also: This is Your Brain on Music, by Daniel J. Levitin, 2006.
# Posted on July 10th 2009 by will morgan
Re: Some interesting reads...
"Death of the Author" in Image/Music/Text by Roland Barthes
# Posted on July 11th 2009 by slainte
Re: Some interesting reads...
"The Inner Game of Music" by Barry Green with W. Timothy Gallwey.
# Posted on July 11th 2009 by sashiko calico
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Hey Floss - That same Ivor Brown was a Professor of Psychiatry in Dublin and he used to always carry a tin whistle inside his jacket pocket.
# Posted on July 13th 2009 by Donough
Re: Some interesting reads...
'The Music Lesson' is a really good one if you haven' read it already. I still can't get the karma of being able to mentally commune with animals though.
'Musicophilia' is a very interesting book. Well written. Problem is it is 400 pages that could bave been done in 200. You think the author has made his point and he comes at it again. Enuf already!
# Posted on July 13th 2009 by zippydw
Re: Some interesting reads...
Music and society in Lowland Scotland in the 18th C
Bagpipes. Cheape
the Highland pipe and Scottish Society, Donaldson
Traditional Gaelic Bagipeing. Gibson
the Highland Bagpipe in Nova Scotia. Shears
Pipers. Donaldson
The story Of Irish Music. ONeill
Violin Mastery. Martens editor
Thats the last month or 2s reading. Very informative and Interesting.... Ah to me
I love reading and History.
# Posted on July 24th 2009 by the wicked hacker
Re: Some interesting reads...
At the moment I am reading Iain MacINNES thesis; The Highland bagpipe; the impact of the Highland societies of London and Scotland. Riveting stuff eh?
# Posted on July 25th 2009 by the wicked hacker
Re: Some interesting reads...
I'm reading Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks at the moment and this paragraph from his book I found fascinating.
p. 94
With the development of brain imaging in the 1990's it became possible to visualize the brains of musicians and to compare them with the brains of nonmusicians. Using MRI morphometry, Gottfried Schlaug of Harvard and his colleagues made careful comparisons of the sizes of various brain structures. In 1995 they published a paper showing that the corpus callosum, the great commissure that connects the two hemispheres of the brain, is enlarged in professional musicians and that a part of the auditory cortex, the planum temporale, has an asymmetric enlargement in musicians with absolute pitch. Schlaug et. al. went on to show increased volumes of gray matter in motor, auditory, and visuospatial areas of the cortex, as well as in the cerebellum. Anatomists today would be hard pressed to identify the brain of a visual artist, a writer or a mathematician -- but they could recognize the brain of a professional musician without a moment's hesitation.
# Posted on July 26th 2009 by MaryMargaret