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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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
Is music important?
... thought ‘Is it worth my while, since it’s only about music?’ Like millions, you may like to listen to the car ... to play’ in their local bar, or as pressure is put on music to justify its position and funding in the school ... at secondary and tertiary levels...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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-...
On vines and minds
... Some psychologists have demonstrated associations between music played in retail outlets and subsequent wine purchases. Playing classical or pop music does not influence the amount of wine purchased but ... the average price of bottles selected, with classical...
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)....