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Musicophilia:
Tales of Music and the Brain
"Oliver
Sacks explores the place music occupies in the brain and how it affects
the human condition. In Musicophilia, he shows us a variety of what he
calls "musical misalignments." Among them: a man struck by lightning who
suddenly desires to become a pianist at the age of forty-two; an entire
group of children with Williams syndrome, who are hypermusical from
birth; people with "amusia," to whom a symphony sounds like the
clattering of pots and pans; and a man whose memory spans only seven
seconds - for everything but music. Dr. Sacks describes how music can
animate people with Parkinson's disease who cannot otherwise move, give
words to stroke patients who cannot otherwise speak, and calm and
organize people who are deeply disoriented by Alzheimer's or
schizophrenia." - Back cover
topophilia
The feeling of affection which individuals have for particular places, a term introduced by Yi-Fu Tuan (1961). Places in this sense may vary in scale from a single room to a nation or continent. Topophilia is an important aspect of the symbolic meaning and significance of landscapes. See iconography, sense of place.
topo-
or top-
pref.
Place; region: toponymy.
[Greek, from topos, place.]
-philia
suff.
- Tendency toward: hemophilia.
- Abnormal attraction to: necrophilia.
[New Latin, from Greek -philiā : -philos, -phile + -iā, -ia.]
necrophilia
ˌnɛkrə(ʊ)ˈfɪlɪə/
noun
- sexual intercourse with or attraction towards corpses.
n., pl., -mies.- The place names of a region or language.
- The study of such place names.
- Anatomy. Nomenclature with respect to a region of the body rather than to organs or structures.
-phile
Pronunciation: /fʌɪl/
Toponymy is the scientific study of place names (toponyms), their origins, meanings, use and typology. The word 'Toponymy' is derived from the Greek words tópos (τόπος) ('place') and ónoma (ὄνομα) ('name'). Toponymy is itself a branch of onomastics, the study of names of all kinds. Toponymy is distinct, though often confused with etymology, which is the study of the history of languages themselves.
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