Due to these facts....
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The top three schools in America all place a great emphasis on music and the arts. Hungary,
Japan, and the Netherlands, the top three academic countries in the world, all place a great
emphasis on music education and participation in music. The top engineers from Silicon Valley are all
musicians.
Donnel quotes Napoleon to have said the following : “Give me control over he who shapes the
laws”.
music of a nation, and I care not who makes the laws”
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===> Healthy and Not So Healthy Effects
………
An Australian physician and psychiatrist, Dr. John Diamond, found a direct link between muscle strength/
weakness and music. He discovered that all of the muscles in the entire body go weak when subjected to the
“stopped anapestic beat” of music from hard rock musicians, including Led Zeppelin, Alice Cooper, Queen, The
Doors, Janis Joplin, Bachman - Turner Overdrive, and The Band. Dr. Diamond found another effect of the
anapestic beat. He called it a “switching” of the brain. ….
===> On Animals and Plants, Too!
Tests on the effects of music on living organisms besides humans have shown that special pieces of music
(including The Blue Danube) aid hens in laying more eggs. Music can also help cows to yield more milk.
Researchers from Canada and the former Soviet Union found that wheat will grow faster when exposed to special
ultrasonic and musical sounds. Rats were tested by psychologists to see how they would react to Bach’s music
and rock music. The rats were placed into two different boxes. Rock music was played in one of the boxes while
Bach’s music was played in the other box. The rats could choose to switch boxes through a tunnel that
connected both boxes. Almost all of the rats chose to go into the box with the Bach music even after the type
of music was switched from one box to the other.
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To Know More
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Ballam, Michael. Music and the Mind (Documentation Related to Message). pp 1-8.
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Jourdain, Robert. Music, the Brain and Ecstasy. New York: William Morrow and Company,
Inc.,1997.
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Lundin, Robert W. An Objective Psychology of Music. Malabar: Robert E. Krieger
Publishing Company, 1985.
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Neverman. “The Affects of Music on the Mind.” 3 pp. On-line. Internet. 20 December
1999. Available WWW: http://www.powell.k12.ky.us/pchs/ publications/
Affects_of_Music.html.
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Scarantino, Barbara Anne. Music Power Creative Living Through the Joys of Music. New
York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1987.
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Storr, Anthony. Music and the Mind. New York: The Free Press, 1992.
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Weinberger, N.M. “Threads of Music in the Tapestry of Memory.” MuSICA Research Notes
4.1 (Spring 1997): 3pp. On-line. Internet. 13 November 1999. Available WWW: http://
musica.ps.uci.edu/mrn/V4I1S97.html#threads.
===> Mystery Music
and Mozart
Mozart’s musical gifts were rare, if not unique, but in many important ways his talents clearly mark him out as
one of us, because the capacity to appreciate and make music is a universal human trait.
Whether it’s Mozart, or the songs of humpback whales, or something from the Hottest 100, there is
,
,
no question that music has a powerful allure. But the question of why we enjoy music is one
that is proving difficult to answer, despite being asked by a great diversity of scientists and
thinkers.