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Students
Thank you for the music ONE question that I have come up against a lot recently ... that my master’s degree is in the ‘Psychology of Music’ the response is typically something along the lines ... What’s that then?’ It seems that the idea of studying music...
Music and change the Rowley Way
Some people call the Music and Change project a Trojan horse,’ says Charlie ... during her training were important in developing Music and Change. ‘Working in the NHS, I thought one-to-one ... of gang culture in New York was another influence on Music...
News
... impossible finding that listening to children’s music can reduce participants’ actual chronological age. ... are self-harming and their families.’ js The mystery of music The latest of the ‘Plug in your brain’ public ... came in the form of a delightful...
Digest
... supported this idea: participants who listened to music with the intention of feeling happier actually ended up ... feeling less happy than others who merely listened to the music with no happiness goal. But now a new study has come ... Sheldon criticise the...
One on one ...with Raymond MacDonald
... to finally play for Celtic. One therapeutic application of music Daniel Barenboim in his BBC Reith Lecture series ... to address why many adolescents lose interest in formal music education around the time music becomes their most important...
Book reviews
... Tyneside & Northumberland Mental Health NHS Trust. Putting music in context Musical Communication Dorothy Miell, Raymond ... line-up of academic and applied researchers, including music psychologists, therapists and educationalists; ... the general public...
One on one... with Tom Dickins
... released by WARP records, 1995. I was introduced to their music when I was a PhD student at the University of ... by this cool, creative place he belonged to. Autechre’s music is beautifully pared down, creating melody and mood from rhythm. As with exquisite...
One on one... with Jaak Panksepp
... minds. One way of understanding ‘the chills’ evoked by music ‘Skin orgasms’ may be closely linked to our primal ... similarities between the chilling emotions evoked by music and those engendered by separation distress and grief. I talk about this in my 1995...
Society
... save an attractive moat containing myriad fish. African music and tropical animal noises piped throughout added to ... of volunteering activities.’ Research seminars on music and language Middlesex University’s Language & ... competition to hold a series...
Careers
Mindsets, music and magic Ian Florance meets Roberto Forzoni St Pancras ... outside work: playing football, DJ-ing and listening to music. ‘I DJ-ed on Solar, a pirate radio station, and ... Roberto’s website ( www.robertoforzoni.com ) calls music ‘...
Book Reviews
... at the University of Worcester Institute of Education. Music Makers: Music Circle Times to Include Everyone Hannah Mortimer ... for early-years educators running their own developmental music therapy sessions. The reader is introduced well to...
Careers
... a classical pianist since the age of four. My interest in music and performing is a continuing one. I did Maths, Physics and Music at A-level and became interested in sound recording. I ... a small Maryland Liberal Arts College, double majoring in Music...
How to get ahead in the psychology of advertising
... them with huge enthusiasm. The first looks at the role of music in advertising, which, as will become clear, is central ... or do the “incidentals” – the particular scene, the music – actually cause an advert to be successful or not? ... I’m researching “...
‘Psychology sang to me’
... isn’t particularly associated with psychology, but with music and creativity. It was celebrated by the folk singer ... multi-ethnic restaurants, coffee bars, street stalls and music shops. Jake Farr – the founder of Alchemy Personal ... of people write, play...
News and media
... brains and our subjective mental lives. While the music Mrs O’Connor hears and the childhood memories she ... rope-controlled set, energetically performed Balkan folk music, and inventive props (at one point, an overhead ... it raised some profound issues. But...
One on one... with Jeune Guishard-Pine
... Courtney Pine CBE, is pretty amazing! Oh, and his music’s not too bad either! Seriously, to hear great jazz ... hear outstanding musicianship. Jazz musicians are creating music instantaneously rather than writing and rewriting it ... career path I would have...
News
... of people’s beliefs in the mind control powers of music. This took in 18th-century fears over the seductive power of music used by mesmerists; Jean-Martin Charcot’s use of ... and 20th-century panic in America over the supposed use of music-...
One on one
... moment that changed my career Deciding that the career in music I was following was not ‘my first love’. I took the radical step to leave music college and take up a post as a Student Registered ...
President's column
... policy on diversity and equality. It was accompanied by music and sound effects from the parade of a 12-metre tall, ... policy on diversity and equality. It was accompanied by music and sound effects from the parade of a 12-metre tall, ...
News
... But it will take years.’ CJ Psychology and the music of Michael Tippett FEW composers have acknowledged the ... work offers unique insights that are not available through music or psychology alone. Indeed the vision that his works ... of the human condition...
News and digest
... review says that airbrushed adverts, sexist sitcoms, lurid music videos, easily-accessed internet porn, ‘lads mags’ ... curriculum; lads mags to be put on the top shelf; sexy music videos to be broadcast only after the watershed; and a ...
News and media
... influence others in developing similar projects.’ Music to your ears The simple act of listening to music can improve some aspects of our musical competence – ... participants with a mixture of formal expertise levels and music listening...
One to one ...with Ray Bull
... The first LP by The Doors, in 1967. It changed ‘rock music’ for ever. One alternative career path Mathematician or something relating to rock music (having been on the Student Union Social Committee for ...
Interview: 'Time is all you've got'
... Youth Orchestra, so that link between time perception and music, particularly I suppose with rhythmic parts like bass ... interaction between them. There’s been work on time in music, by Marie Rhys-Jones and Marianne Boltz who was her ... we played it on our...
Careers
... I told my father as a teenager that I wanted to do either music or psychology his response was “music’s a hobby and psychology isn’t serious”. I ended ... ‘In my 20s I studied double bass at the Royal Academy of Music in the same student cohort...