Effects of opera music from brain to body : a matter of wellbeing / Lorenzo Lorusso, Michele Augusto Riva, Vittorio Alessandro Sironi, editors.
Lorusso, Lorenzo, editor.; Riva, Michele Augusto, editor.; Sironi, Vittorio Alessandro, editor.
2023
ML3830 .E44 2023
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Title Effects of opera music from brain to body : a matter of wellbeing / Lorenzo Lorusso, Michele Augusto Riva, Vittorio Alessandro Sironi, editors.
ISBN 9783031347696 (electronic bk.)
3031347692 (electronic bk.)
3031347684
9783031347689
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34769-6
Published Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2023.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (140 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and color).
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-031-34769-6 doi
Call Number ML3830 .E44 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification 782.101/9
Summary 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 investigate the therapeutic potential of music, especially in the field of treatment and rehabilitation of individuals with neurodegenerative diseases; medical historians analyse the representation of diseases and those who cure diseases within operas; occupational doctors report descriptions of diseases that affect workers in the opera world and particularly focus on psychiatric and psychological alterations. Opera, with its instrumental and vocal accompaniment, is considered the most complete form of theatrical performance. However, little is known about the mechanisms of brain activity under the influence of melodrama on singers, musicians, and listeners. The use of neuroimaging techniques has enabled a better understanding of the neuronal mechanisms and circuits involved during an opera performance. Over the past 20 years, melodrama has increasingly been used as a therapeutic approach in various neurological and neuropsychiatric pathologies, such as depression, cognitive impairment, and even coma. The book also discusses the ways in which melodrama affects professionals involved in music and interventions to reduce or alleviate occupational diseases, leading to improved health and higher life satisfaction. The ultimate goal is to improve therapeutic interventions in neurological diseases and professional disorders, relying on solid neuroscientific data. This book will be of great interest to neurologists, neurobiologists, psychiatrists, occupational doctors and therapists in music.
Bibliography, etc. Note References -- 5: Neuro-Musicology of Opera -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Opera Performance: Self-Identification on the Stage and in the Brain -- 5.3 "Fremo, smanio, avvampo, tremo" (I Tremble, Yearn, Flush, Tremble): Opera and Its Psychophysiological Effects Opera and Its Psychophysiological Correlates Opera and the Autonomic Nervous System -- 5.4 "Opera Therapy": Exploiting the Treating Potential of Opera -- 5.5 Conclusions -- References -- 6: The Singing Brain: Words and Music in the Opera -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Historical Notes on the Role of Music and Voice in Early Operas
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Added Author Lorusso, Lorenzo, editor.
Riva, Michele Augusto, editor.
Sironi, Vittorio Alessandro, editor.
Series Neurocultural health and wellbeing.
Available in Other Form EFFECTS OF OPERA MUSIC FROM BRAIN TO BODY.
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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.

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