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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 to our ears
... One ubiquitous aspect of everyday auditory environments is music. Music has a range of powerful physical, social, and emotional ... for example, Raymond MacDonald and colleagues’ 2012 book Music, Health and Wellbeing ). It is surprising,...
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...
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...
John Booth Davies 1944-2017
... years, was a psychologist with a wide range of interests: music, addiction, human factors and safety. He was born near ... Big Band for many years. His first book T he Psychology of Music (1978) dealt largely with the cognitive psychology of music...
Unpleasant reactions to ‘music’
... (February 2015)? I have always felt a connection between music and a sense of space. Listening to pieces in two parts ... correct term for it. It occurs when I hear some sounds or music created by electronic means. Currently when the BBC ... as queasy. The same...
A curveball angle
... and interact. Let us take this third suggestion first. Music in three time ‘projects itself’ onto curves of ... and vision (as in the kite flying of Ray Bethell) while music in four or two time hearkens unto marching and jumping. ... is increasingly normative...
Can we have a Happy Christmas?
... tend to be highest at the time of year when Christmas music is being played, with this effect enhanced when the music played is paired with Christmas scent (Spangenberg et ... Christmas: The interactive effects of ambient scent and music in a...
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, ...
Forum
... to this condition in the pages of The Psychologist (‘Music – shelter for the frazzled mind?’, December 2009). ... on a task to identify emotional depiction within music (which apparently does not detract from their appreciation of the music)....
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...
Allan McNeill 1958-2016
... important. One thing that defined Allan was his love of music. In his teenage years and early twenties he had an ... were too good to let them get lost in the jungle of the music business and he became their manager. Later, Allan went ...
William M. Cheyne 1938-2020
... Outside of academia, Bill’s great love was music, nurtured during his early years. He particularly loved ... Wagner, on whom he was something of an authority); choral music; and the traditional music of North-East Scotland. He was a fine singer...
Barry Frost 1926-2020
... him as a mentor. He was passionate about classical music particularly of the Romantic period and his record ... parties were legendary for mixing academic conversation, music, wine and good, often exotic, food cooked at home. ...
Joan Kirk (1945–2016)
... identify birds spied on the way. Joan was a great lover of music, from opera to rock and saw many rock stars live in concert, with the Rolling Stones and Roxy Music being special favourites. As well as extensive travel ...
Peter Weinreich 1939-2016
... many interests outside of academia, including gardening, music, and politics. He was an avid supporter of the arts and keenly pursued his love of fine art, literature and music, frequenting theatre wherever or whenever he could. ... of him: his imposing and...
Donald Campbell (1940-2019)
... to drink copious amounts of wine and beer. A lover of music, both classical and jazz, Donnie went regularly with friends to classical music concerts in Birmingham, Oxford and London, and to jazz ...
Geoffrey Stephenson 1939-2021
... the youngest of three boys in a family of enthusiasts for music, cricket and sailing. After the war they moved to North ... children and grandchildren, his enthusiasm for classical music (he was an excellent violinist and enjoyed choral ...
Professor Glyn Humphreys 1954-2016
... trips overseas, the weddings and birthdays, the children, music, food and laughter. Glyn and his wife and collaborator ... and much-liked member of the community. He loved music, swimming, and wining and dining with friends and ...
Larraine Morgan (1950–2015)
... from visits with friends to local art galleries. She loved music and theatre and regularly attended performances in London and the Early Music Festival in York. Her family was her anchor; she ...
Forum
... voice, bonding, and parent-soothing? Hospitals now give music CDs to new parents to soothe infants; there are plenty ... arrive at school hardly talking; teenagers are preferring music (Yule, 2008); swearing is generally reduced to one word ... and obscuring...
Letters: austerity and more
... menu, the dish of the day, and more drinks. Look out for music: this increases the degree of drink-buying. Music with prosocial lyrics is the most devious of the lot: ... Better still, have someone else pay. Speaking of music, pay close...
Are understandings of mental illness mired in the past?
... attacked and brain-injured in the street and now hears music from his childhood whenever a generalised seizure is ... the development of seizures, to the hearing of childhood music, to the worries about the future, is perfectly ...
Letters
... psychological responsibility will change the mood music; it’ll make people think; it’ll make psychology ... care you like, then nurses do talking therapies now. Music therapy, art therapy, psychotherapy, counselling ...
Book reviews
... discusses the creative talents of genius ranging across music, painting, literature, poetry and philosophy. The text ...