{"id":344,"date":"2014-02-27T16:49:52","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T16:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/jnnp\/?p=344"},"modified":"2014-02-27T16:49:52","modified_gmt":"2014-02-27T16:49:52","slug":"the-sound-of-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/jnnp\/2014\/02\/27\/the-sound-of-music\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sound of Music"},"content":{"rendered":"

My sister is doing a degree in music.\u00a0 I listen, fascinated, to her stories; music school isn\u2019t like med school.\u00a0 Their days begin around noon, fellow students sport wild hair colours and outfits (tutus anyone?), and the last exam she sat was held upstairs in the local pub. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Most people enjoy listening to music; it enriches life, provides comfort, pleasure, intellectual stimulus, and show-cases the capability and creativity of human-kind.\u00a0 And I wonder, is there something apart from relentless practice that separates the orchestra pit from the audience?\u00a0\u00a0 Are our brains wired differently?<\/p>\n

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I don\u2019t know if I can answer these questions, but I will share with you a fascinating\u00a0case study<\/a>.\u00a0 To paraphrase:<\/p>\n

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A 35 year old music connoisseur and composer reported a musical hallucinosis, which occurred about an hour after listening to Wagner\u2019s \u2018Siegfried\u2019.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0This auditory hallucination was a piece of music, familiar yet not quite like any other he had heard before, involving drums and other percussion instruments, interspersed with string instruments.\u00a0 The music itself was frightening, terrifying, and yet at the same time, fascinating and exciting \u2013 music that he wished he could compose. \u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Brilliant and yet uncanny.<\/p>\n

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Sometimes I get auditory hallucinations.\u00a0 Hallucinations of my pager ringing.\u00a0 It happens to a lot of doctors (I\u2019ve cautiously asked around).\u00a0 No one has volunteered hearing an unknown symphony though.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019m very curious \u2013 have you encountered any seriously developed musical hallucinations in your patients?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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