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Posted on January 22, 2020

Music and neurochemistry

I took piano when I was eight until I was ten, and I was terrible. I didn’t learn how to read music in those two years. When my teacher assigned me a piece of music, I would go home and write the corresponding letter next to each note. I had the keys on the piano …

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Posted on June 28, 2018May 9, 2019

The hills are alive

If you are cool, you already know what this post is going to be about.  I read this fascinating book a few years ago by Oliver Sacks called Musicophilia. It’s a sizable book full of odd-ball stories revolving around people’s love for music. -philia means “love for” in Latin.  I read it well after I …

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