Word: amusia
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...that got her the nomination for Best Female Vocalist at the Boston Music Awards three years in a row. The funky trio has performed with the likes of George Clinton, among other greats, and their acclaim as a great undiscovered band suggests they may not remain undiscovered for long. Amusia warms up the stage. Saturday, August 16 at 9 p.m. $11. The House of Blues, 96 Winthrop...
...opposite is true of the less than 1% of the population who suffer from amusia, or true tone deafness. They literally cannot recognize a melody, let alone tell two of them apart, and they are incapable of repeating a song (although they think they are doing it correctly). Even simple, familiar tunes such as Frere Jacques and Happy Birthday are mystifying to amusics, but when the lyrics are spoken rather than sung, amusics are able to recognize the song immediately...
...inability to carry a tune," observes psychologist Isabelle Peretz of the University of Montreal. "They can't dance, and they can't tell the difference between consonance [harmony] and dissonance either. They all appear to have been born without the wiring necessary to process music." Intriguingly, people with amusia show no overt signs of brain damage or short-term-memory impairment, and magnetic-resonance-imaging scans of their brains look normal...
...DePoe and Maher, who play together under the name Amusia (a disease impairing the ability to understand music), play in the Park Street and Government Center T stations regularly and say they have never been happier...
Alexia? The language is that of a literary acrobat cockily performing newly-learned tricks and listening slyly for applause. In one neon-streaked passage, Durrell preens so obviously that his arrogant virtuosity is amusing: "I question myself eagerly. Is this amusia, aphasia, agraphia, alexia. abulia? It is life.''* The narrator, a knockabout literary sort named Lawrence Lucifer, gloats over sex, happily flexes his ability to shock ("I am afraid to shake hands with him, for fear that the skin will slip the bony structure of the hand and come away. It would take so little to produce...
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