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Effects of opera music from brain to body : a matter of wellbeing / Lorenzo Lorusso, Michele Augusto Riva, Vittorio Alessandro Sironi, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Neurocultural health and wellbeing
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Neurosciences.
- Neurosciences and the arts.
- Psychoanalysis and opera.
- Opera--Psychological aspects.
- Opera.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 129 pages) : illustrations (some color.
- Place of Publication:
- Cham, Switzerland : Springer Nature Switzerland AG, [2023]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9783031347696 (electronic bk.)
- 3031347692 (electronic bk.)
- Publisher Number:
- 99994888927
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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