Music and Science
Classical Music Helps Depression
The April/May issue of Scientific American Mind Magazine suggests that “Classical Music may lift depressed patients’ spirits.”
I will not go into the specifics of how they can even begin to test all this but I think it is true…for me anyways. Any time I feel down I am grabbing at some music. It’s almost like […]
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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
I read an interesting article in the March issue of Scientific American Mind Magazine. It was about music and the effects it has on the brain.
The blog title, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, is actually that of a book written by Oliver Sacks who is a neurologist that loves music. Oliver states that “music […]
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Absolute Pitch, Perfect Pitch and Relative Pitch. What is it?
Wikipedia states that Absolute pitch, or perfect pitch, is “the ability to identify the frequency or musical name of a specific tone, or, conversely, the ability to produce some designated frequency, frequency level, or musical pitch without comparing the tone with any objective reference tone, i.e., without using relative pitch.” Here we see that absolute […]
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