Classical Music Alters the Brain–Here’s How ((in a Positive Way))

Epoch Times (Health Section) ^ | 8 May 2024 | Flora Zhao

[Vigilanteman]

A gray-haired older woman sat motionless with her gaze lowered. In the late stages of dementia, she no longer spoke to others or made eye contact.

When Ayako Yonetani started playing the violin, the woman slowly lifted her head.

“Her mouth moved, and her eyes brightened as if she heard my music and was trying to follow it,” recounted Ms. Yonetani, a concert artist and professor of violin and viola at the University of Central Florida School of Performing Arts.

Those who spent time with the older woman were astonished. “They had never seen her react like this before,” she said. But this was only one of many times that Ms. Yonetani had seen such a thing.

Clear Evidence

One study published in the 1990s in the journal Nature drew people’s attention.

Three groups of participants were instructed to either sit in silence, listen to a relaxation tape, or listen to Mozart’s Sonata for Two Pianos in D major (K448). Ten minutes later, the group who listened to Mozart’s music showed a significant improvement in spatial IQ score—nearly 10 points higher than the other two groups.

[AppyPappy]

I mostly stream everything now. It’s like a custom designed radio.

[aspasia]

Feed yourself some solid rock to authenticate your anger fuel some revenge.

Heavy Metal Music makes Killer Mice

[Chickensoup]

I do stream at times. The classical station.org is wonderful. So is serenaderadio.org. but I have understood that the compression needed in streaming loses notes. Perhaps I am mistaken

[P.O.E.]

There’s this one part in the first half of “The Ancient” that gets stuck in my head when I’m walking or climbing.

[P.O.E.]

“Model of a Modern Major General” comes to mind.

Saw the Pirates of Penzance back in the 1980s. Can’t recall if it was the Gilbert & Sullivan Players or Light Opera of Manhattan.

[Songcraft]

"As a veterinarian, my father was in charge of a dairy barn at a state university research station. He had three rotating students who milked the cows. They gave the best production to the guy who played classical music, normal for the guy who played pop and sub-par for the one who played hard rock on the radio while milking."


I wonder how they would do with this music:

      "Milk Cow Blues" - Original Bob Will's Texas Playboys

Just kidding!

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Interesting article.   Thanks for posting.

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"Relaxing Mozart for Babies"        (music link)