Effects of Opera Music from Brain to Body: A Matter of Wellbeing
- Editor: Lorusso, Lorenzo
- Editor: Riva, Michele Augusto
- Editor: Sironi, Vittorio Alessandro
Book
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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 . Operatic Inspiration, Genius and Madness.-
- Chapter 8 . Work and Disease in Italian Operas.-
- 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.