Effects of Opera Music from Brain to Body A Matter of Wellbeing
This book explores the connection between melodrama and medicine from multiple perspectives. Neuroscientists study the relationship between opera and brain functioning in the light of new findings in the fields of neurophysiology, neuroimaging, cognitive science and neuro-musicology; clinicians inve...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing
2023, 2023
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2023 |
| Series: | Neurocultural Health and Wellbeing
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Part I. A Medical Look at Opera
- Chapter 1. Pathology and Lirics: Diseases and Illness in the Opera
- Chapter 2. Physicians, Charlatans, Healers and Aphotecaries in Opera
- Chapter 3. Caring Through Music: Music Therapy and Opera Therapy
- Part II. Relationship Between Music and the Brain
- Chapter 4. “Va Sossopra il Mio Cervello” (It Goes over My Brain): Neurology and Psychiatry in the Opera
- Chapter 5. Neuro-Musicology of Opera
- Chapter 6. The Singing Brain: Words and Music in the Opera
- Part III. Diseases that Affect Workers in the Opera World
- Chapter 7. Work and Disease in Italian Operas
- Chapter 8. Operatic Inspiration, Genius and Madness
- Chapter 9. Playing and Singing: A Demanding Profession
- Part IV. Finale
- Chapter 10. Representational Conventions and Varieties of Operatic Madness: The Gap Between Dramaturgy and Diagnosis