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The power of music
... means that the manner in which people obtain and listen to music has changed radically since the early 1990s. Legal and ... websites make it possible to obtain a massive range of music within moments. These sites are complemented by a ... stations broadcasting...
In search of the language
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is ... Victor Hugo captures a widely acknowledged attribute of music – the sense that it helps us to communicate. It has ... been described, for example, as the language of love (‘Music is...
Motivating musical learning
No human society has existed without music, and many people experience music as a crucial aspect of their everyday lives. Music offers numerous personal and social benefits, including ...
The role of psychology in music education
... more generally, psychology played a major role in music education through the development of psychometric tests ... Carl Stumpf suggested a number of simple aural tests that music teachers might undertake to select pupils. ... opportunity to learn an instrument...
Music -shelter for the frazzled mind?
... these difficulties do not appear to generalise to music. Craig Romkema, a poet with autism has written of music as ‘the regulator of my nervous system, the shelter ... autism unequivocally show that Romkema’s feelings about music are by no...
Musings on music
Music and humans go back a very long way. The earliest ... All kinds of ideas have been put forward for why and how music came to matter so much to us. But what’s abundantly ... a society out there that doesn’t make and listen to music. And new...
‘The world needs to come into music’
... Menuhin and his friend, Ian Stoutzker CBE, UK charity Live Music Now joined forces here with the Royal Society of Medicine to consider core benefits for music interventions. The conference brought together a ... address by Ewan Dawson (Executive Director for...
Lost in music
... develop, is the ability to make sense of musical sound. Music is not ‘out there’ in the world but must be ... to tell one tune from another. Such individuals may find music impenetrable and confusing and go to great lengths to ... in order to understand the...
Memory and music at the BBC Proms
... symphony no.40 in G minor entirely from memory. Free from music stands and with almost all standing, they played with ... enriched our relationship with this extraordinary piece of music, forcing us to internalise nuances that can be easily ... question of how...
Web-only article: Psychology and the music of Michael Tippett -a song of innocence and experience
... the words for himself in order that the words and the music might not ‘compete for attention’) and popular ... of the view the he was the ‘vessel’ through which the music for his ballet The Rite of Spring passed from a deeper ... work offers a unique synthesis...
The harmonic healing houses of Turkey
... were used as places of education in the Ottoman Empire. Music and the sound of nature were used as a treatment, ... the most well-known method was the use of sounds and music. They were considered a strategic tool, with particular ... to this notion and stated...
Honorary life membership
... and outstanding contributions to the psychology of music and psychology in education through the three strands of her career – as a professional musician, music educator and academic. Professor Hallam has published ... high quality of her personal contribution...
New voices: Digital piracy and the moral compass
... digital information. Two questions account for the bulk of music piracy research into predictive factors and deterrents: ... d’Astous et al., 2005, for example, where having swapped music in the past exerts a strong influence on one’s ... to address the...
Honoured psychologists
Experts in emergency preparedness, psychosis, music and psychology, as well as a former British ... Sloboda, Research Professor at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, for services to psychology and music, collaborating with professional...
For those psychologists about to rock...
... also exploring the relationship between psychology and music more generally? Can psychology help? My first question ... in psychology could influence how I learn or perform music. Of course, psychology can provide subject material. ... University in Montreal...
Psychologists honoured
... people with intellectual disabilities and services to music education. They told us about their plans for the ... she added. Susan Hallam, Professor of Education and Music Psychology at the Institute of Education, University of London, received an MBE for...
Feeling the blues
... the artist’s creation, to connect with their message. Music can communicate the musician’s internal world and ... and civil inequalities and injustices. In their music, performers have sometimes represented these emotions ... and often expressed their...
From openings to the power of music
... we use it to calm down, get excited and cry to… it’s music. In her captivating talk, Professor Catherine Loveday (University of Westminster) explored why music has such overwhelming power for most people. She explained that music has...
Music — where cognition and emotion meet
Music presents a puzzle. On the one hand, people love music and devote much time and effort to putting themselves ... Western society are surprisingly low. On the face of it, music has all the characteristics which would lead one to ...
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...
Dyslexia – in tune but out of time
... simple way of thinking about rise times is to think about music. In music, we can have notes of the same pitch that are made by ... Just as both pitch and timing (rhythm) are critical for music, both frequency modulation and amplitude...
Big Picture: BitterSuite symphony
... a perception in another – for example, listening to music might cause a synaesthete to literally see colours. ... ‘BitterSuite springs from a motivation to take classical music audiences out of their mind to experience an embodied ... to truly create a sensory...
An evening of inspiring ideas, cleverly communicated
... want to let things go! It’s my insurance policy .’ Music is so powerful in creating memories and shaping ... books, greatest footballers, etc – occurs earlier in music. This may suggest that music is particularly important in shaping our...
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...
Emotions in motion
... which starts with a stretch, deep breaths and loud music. We breathe in and stretch up, before we release from ... pain, lack of energy and mood swings. Dancing to music is a great way to overcome these negative feelings ... both the exercise and our emotional...