MUSIC AND SMELL TRIGGER VIVID MEMORIES
Your Memory of Music Creates Network of Memories When you hear music, it’s not stored separately, but with all other aspects of the situation that you perceived. The smells and sights of the place, your mood, the people you were with, what you were doing, are all...
WHY DOES MUSIC PUT YOUR BABY TO SLEEP?
Lullabies Establish a Soothing Connection With the outside World. A baby’s first awareness of the world is huge and frightening. The swaying rhythm of a lullaby is close to the infant’s own heartbeat, and the quiet harmony is a relief from the rest of the world. A...
WHY NOT HAVE A BIRTHDAY PARTY/PRE-FUNERAL?
80-yr. Old Throws Celebration: Birthday/FUNeral A fascinating woman recently turned 80. The unconventional lady, Joan, decided she wanted to participate in her funeral so she threw this party. I played at Joan’s last wedding, and I’ve played my harp for...
MUSIC FOR A MEMORIAL SERVICE OR FUNERAL
Suggestions for Funeral/Memorial Music If you don’t have a clue how to choose music for a funeral or memorial, check out this list of songs. Religious Amazing Grace Ave Maria How Great Thou Art On Eagles’ Wings In the Garden Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring...
EVERYTHING IS VIBRATION – INCLUDING MUSIC
All About Vibration The definition of “vibrate” is to move backward and forward, to oscillate, to shake, to quiver. Everything is in a constant state of vibration, from the tiny electron to the vast universe. To understand the concept of vibration, hold one arm...
MUSIC IS SIMPLY ORGANIZED VIBRATIONS
Our Own Vibrations (brain waves, heartbeat, breath) Get In Sync With Music. Everything in existence – atoms, molecules, cells, the entire universe – and, yes, music – is in a state of continuous vibration. Everything vibrates at a particular frequency. We...
PIANO PLAYERS’ BRAINS ARE DIFFERENT
https://mic.com/articles/91329/science-shows-how-piano-players-brains-are-actually-different-from-everybody-elses#.sDdhvA15T
MUSIC HELPS ANTI-AGING
http://www.mnn.com/leaderboard/stories/10-reasons-why-making-music-is-good-for-your-brain
WHY DO WE LISTEN TO SAD MUSIC?
It’s cathartic to get in touch with all our emotions, good and bad. Music is a safe way to do this. There is always resolution in music, from dissonance to harmony. We can identify with that since life is a series of ups and downs, conflict-resolution, sadness-joy,...
MUSIC AND LOVE GO TOGETHER
Love Inspires Musical Composition It’s no accident that so much music, from country music to operas, is about love. The lyrics to country music songs often have a theme about the composer’s awesome partner or the loss of a love. Well-known, beautiful...
MOZART WAS A “ROCKSTAR”
MOZART REBELLED AGAINST TRADITION. Born on January 27, 1756, in Salzburg, Austria, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a musician capable of playing multiple instruments who started playing and composing at the age of 4. He was known as a prodigy, and unlike any other...
CHILDREN EXPLAIN MUSIC
QUOTES FROM GRADE SCHOOL CHILDREN ABOUT MUSIC "A virtuoso is a musician with real high morals." "Beethoven wrote music even though he was deaf. He was so deaf he wrote loud music." "Refrain means don’t do it. A refrain in music is the part you had better...
WHAT IS A BRAINWORM?
Musical Hallucinations (also Known as “Earworms”) Advertisers, film and television producers love to use catchy tunes that will stay in listeners’ ears and brains and instantly make you think of a certain product or show. But if a tune or jingle gets stuck in your...
CREATE YOUR OWN SPIRITUAL PLACE WITH MUSIC
Create Your Own Spiritual Place. Anything beautiful, whether visual art, music, nature, flowers, or love can be sacred and remind us of the awesomeness of life. Even when a piece of music isn’t formally labeled as religious, it may bring us to a spiritual...
MUSIC AFFECTS PLANTS
How Music Affects the Growth of Plants Music is so powerful it can affect the growth of plants! Dorothy Retallack, a graduate student in Denver, Colorado, placed plants in five greenhouses with different types of music playing All the greenhouses had...
EACH NOTE ACTIVATES A SPECIFIC CHAKRA
It is believed by some that different notes or tones of the scale have special effects on us. There are seven notes of the major diatonic scale, and there are seven chakras (wheels of energy) surrounding the body, according to yoga philosophy. The chakras are located...
HOW DO WE EXPLAIN MUSIC?
I Call Music “A Spiritual Vitamin.” The dictionary defines music as “a composition of rhythmical, melodic, harmonic sounds.” Music can also be defined as the result of our conscious development of sound into an art and a science. Goethe called architecture “petrified...
NEUROLOGIST SAVES LIFE USING MUSIC
Oliver Sacks, M.D., author of Musicophilia and other books, became interested in music after he saved his own life because of a song. He had severely injured one of his legs while mountain climbing, back before there were cell phones. As he pushed his way down the...