Music on the brain

Tom Otvos wrote: A small bump to this topic, as I came across this interesting blog post, which suggests that music on the brain is difficult to dislodge because of how and where it is stored:

onehumanjourney.blogspot.ca/2014/01/jukebox-karma.html

Interesting article, Tom. Thanks for the link!

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Given half a chance (thank you), I pass along two amazing, top-of-the-list book on music and the brain. The first, clearly, is Musicophilia, by Oliver Sachs . Sachs is a neurologist and an amazingly insightful and touching writer, and I've read and re-read the stories many many times.

The second, Music on the Brain, by Daniel J. Levitin is a popular science book that details recent finding on the relationship of cognitive neuroscience and music. It's a wonderful, interesting read by a neurologist and former rock musician and producer, and received a huge amount of praise. It seriously boosts your party conversational cred.

It's totally worth blowing off other tasks to read chapters out of either book, up to and including a weekend or two. 'nuff said.
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I might take you up on it. Right now, after just waking, I have an old revivalist hymn going through my head. No idea how it got there or what it's doing there. Don't particularly like or dislike it. At any moment in any day I could check and find something; in fact, in this case I just checked, suggesting it had been playing for awhile just under the radar screen.

This has been on repeat in my brain lately:

My birds perked up and took notice at the beginning of that one!

I could check in every day with whatever is going through my brain. This morning it's been "The spacious firmament" from Hayden's Creation.

Laurel Carrington wrote: My birds perked up and took notice at the beginning of that one!

I could check in every day with whatever is going through my brain. This morning it's been "The spacious firmament" from Hayden's Creation.

I like that idea! One could journal solely based on whatever music is on one's mind! The only one I've had pop up today is "Gloria Laus" which I've been studying (I've been studying several pieces, but that one seems to stick more than the others). I like this guy's version: (starts at minute 1, after the bells).

(Your bird comment reminded me of a quirky friend I had many years ago who had a cockatiel. If she put a particular opera aria on (I don't remember which - it was one that was popular due to Pavarotti singing it in the mid 1990s), the cockatiel would start shrieking and flying in circles around the room. It didn't react that way to any other piece.)

Wow Shargrol - that's amazing. Here's another Heart Sutra piece...