Posted on 05/13/2024 4:58:54 AM PDT by 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.
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.
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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.
And it was even better in A=432.
A=440 has everyone at each other’s throats.
Classical is my favorite background music when I don’t want to solely focus on what is on the stereo. I have been slowly building the best system to put into my dedicated listening room that I am designing. Right now it is in my den (repurposed barn wood walls, tile floors, drop ceiling) and it is a Marantz NR-1200 with Vandersteen 1C speakers. I will upgrade the speakers and use the Marantz for a pre-amp when the new room comes online.
She’s gone.
Still have the stereo. Worked out best for both of us.
Don’t listen to Stockhausen or Boulez compositions. That is neither Classicsl, nor music.
The grandson of a woman at our church recently suffered a traumatic brain injury due to a fall. He’s still in the hospital and they’re unsure of the full extent. He apparently loves classical music and they are playing it for him frequently for the very reasons in the article, hoping to stimulate his recovery.
Very interesting article. Thanks for posting. GREAT music for my ears. Many wonderful composers from many countries throughout the years. Amadeus is my favorite movie. My White Golden Retriever is named Wolfgang.
Quote from Dave Barry:
But we also need to define “classical music.” A little further on in the World Book, we come to the section on music, which states: “There are two chief kinds of Western music, classical and popular.” Thus we see that “classical music” is defined, technically, as “music that is not popular.”
And it was even better in A=432.
A=440 has everyone at each other’s throats.
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I recall that my HS Band director tuned us to A=442 (or so, at least higher than 440).
What would that do to everyone’s throats?
PS We won the county hs band contests.
(Thank you!)
Some “classical” music is fairly recent. Probably should call it “orchestral” music.
A=432 is a deep psychological rabbit hole. You can spend hours listening on YouTube. There are videos that show frequencies applied to a steel plate covered with sand. Certain frequencies produce intricate harmonious patterns, while others produce chaotic, and disturbing patterns. The latter are from A440. It is actually quite interesting.
Congrats on winning the band competition.
Brahms, Beethoven, and Bach
I have a bunch of older amps/receivers but they can’t hold a candle to the new stuff unless they get refurbished. The capacitors go bad with age. Our financial advisor told us “It’s time to buy the things you have always wanted”. Ironically, someone gave me the Vandersteens.
Also try “Music and the Spoken Word”. We started listening to that on Youtube during Covid. The Organ gives the subwoofer a workout.
I listen to music all day, mostly classical, and generally whatever a Berne, Switzerland station is playing, but sometimes a Paris station, and sometimes youtube comps of classical, or Pandora comps.
An extra laptop connected to high quality Audioengine computer speakers is sufficient and easy for all day music, I have that setup in every room but in my small house the kitchen music covers it usually.
Pandora has a lot of variety when its time to get off the classical.
Bkmk
I saw Metallica in concert with an orchestra. Does that count?
BTTT
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