pt. 1: Haunted by music. A bolt from the blue: sudden musicophilia -- A strangely familiar feeling: musical seizures -- Fear of music: Musicogenic epilepsy -- Music on the brain: imagery and imagination -- Brainworms, sticky music, and catchy tunes -- Musical hallucinations -- pt. 2: A range of musicality. Sense and sensibility: a range of musicality -- Things fall apart: amusia and dysharmonia -- Papa blows his nose in G: absolute pitch -- Pitch imperfect: cochlear amusia -- In living stereo: why we have two ears -- Two thousand operas: musical savants -- An auditory world: music and blindness -- The key of clear green: synesthesia and music -- pt. 3: Memory, movement, and music. In the moment: music and amnesia -- Speech and song: aphasia and music therapy -- Accidental davening: dyskinesia and cantillation -- Come together: music and Tourette's syndrome -- Keeping time: rhythm and movement -- Kinetic melody: Parkinson's disease and music therapy -- Phantom fingers: the case of the one-armed pianist -- Athletes of the small muscles: musician's dystonia -- pt. 4: Emotion, identity, and music. Awake and asleep: musical dreams -- Seduction and indifference -- Lamentations: music, madness, and melancholia -- The case of Harry S.: music and emotion -- Irrepressible: music and the temporal lobes -- A hypermusical species: Williams syndrome -- Music and identity: dementia and music therapy.