pt. 1. Evolutionary considerations. Darwin and Spencer on the origin of music : is music the food of love? / Kim Kleinman -- Music evolution and neuroscience / Charles T. Snowdon, Elke Zimmermann, Eckart Altenmüller -- pt. 2. The musical brain. Ch. 3 Musicians and music making as a model for the study of brain plasticity / Gottfried Schlaug -- Expert music performance : cognitive, neural, and developmental bases / Rachel M. Brown, Robert J. Zatorre, Virginia B. Penhune -- pt. 3. New perspectives on neurological and mental disorders. Apollo's curse : neurological causes of motor impairments in musicians / Eckart Altenmüller, Christos I. Ioannou, Andre Lee -- Music and its association with epileptic disorders / Melissa Maguire -- Treatment and prevention of music performance anxiety / Claudia Spahn -- pt. 4. Music therapies then and now. Music as therapy in early history / Michael H. Thaut -- An enlightenment propopsal for music therapy : Richard Brocklesby on music, spirit, and the passions / Penelope Gouk -- Neurological implications and neuropsychological considerations on folk music and dance / Vittorio A. Sironi, Michaele A. Riva -- Music and dementia / Amee Baird, Sévenine Samson -- Apollo's gift : new aspects of neurologic music therapy / Eckart Altenmüller, Gottfried Schlaug -- The discovery of human auditory-motor entrainment and its role in the development neurologic music therapy / Michael H. Thaut.