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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...
‘We all have unique relationships with music’
... for an NHS Trust. But back in 2006 I was researching what music therapy is, and I had perhaps my first encounter with the impact and power of music. I was with a music therapist working with a group of older adults with ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
'They should embrace that oddness'
... fourth album. I’m currently in LA just about to shoot a music video for a song called ‘Turn’ and we are about to ... so personal, or do you find it therapeutic? All forms of music and art and writing are a form of therapy and it seems ... to find it! There have...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
From A&R man to assistant psychologist
... study history and economics. I was trying to avoid doing music, since my family was so involved with it. But I was drawn in and took a music degree. My rebellion failed. My degree was in classical music – I wrote my long essay on the use of...
One on one… with Susan Hallam
... career and influenced me to research the wider benefits of music. One favourite film Farewell My Concubine. This film ... turning point in my life On leaving the Royal Academy of Music I became principal second violin in the BBC Midland ... for Oxfordshire...
A glimpse of our potential
... darkness: Group flow and environmental expression in the music of Black Sabbath and Joy Division. This combines two of his great interests – psychology and music – which threaded our conversation. I first asked ... Pepper came out and from a very young age...
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...
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...
Thirty three and a third
... with their darkly humorous and soul-baring lyrics. Perfect music for this old punk rocker! There’s plenty for ... to the new album from Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Music and science in harmony Laura Meldrum-Carter looks for ... in our archive , and over on the...
The surprising world of synaesthesia
... he claimed to experience coloured words, sequences and music. Regrettably, Sachs did not attempt to explain why he ... Pulford. Pulford (EP) said she experienced words and music in colour and asked whether anyone was interested in ... that are mainly located in...