{"id":924,"date":"2010-08-27T13:27:54","date_gmt":"2010-08-27T18:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/healingmusicenterprises.com\/blog\/?p=924"},"modified":"2014-11-18T22:42:02","modified_gmt":"2014-11-19T03:42:02","slug":"do-you-have-a-mind-for-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/healingmusicenterprises.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/do-you-have-a-mind-for-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Do YOU have a mind for music?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a great new article from Scientific American:<\/p>\n

A mind for music<\/div>\n
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By Elizabeth Quill<\/div>\n
August 14th, 2010; Vol.178 #4 (p. 17)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

There are very few activities for which your birthday suit and a three-piece suit are equally appropriate attire. Music is one of them.<\/p>\n

Belting an improvised ditty alone in the shower and performing Handel\u2019s \u201cMessiah\u201d on stage with a full choral ensemble and orchestra both qualify as \u201csong.\u201d Simple or intricate, practiced or spontaneous, individual or collective, highbrow or honky-tonk\u2014music covers the gamut. And though instruments aren\u2019t instrumental, they are welcome and multifarious. Bells, drums, strings, woodwinds, harps or horns can certainly spice up a tune. (Though a Stradivarius may not survive a shower.)<\/p>\n

But music\u2019s broad scope doesn\u2019t stop with its production. More fascinating than how people make music (and greater mysteries, perhaps) are why people make it, why others listen and how a beat of any sort can have such a profound impact on the body and the brain.<\/p>\n

Coos and ahs exchanged by moms and babies around the globe may form a musical conversation that lays the groundwork for language, some scientists now propose. That notion joins others\u2014including the desire to impress mates and the drive to build social bonds\u2014in suggesting an evolutionary source of chanteys, dirges and ballads. Others see music as a pleasing diversion, and research shows that emotionally charged music\u2014whether moving a person to tears of joy or calling forth memories of a failed romance\u2014appears to activate the brain\u2019s reward circuitry. And while listening to music brings on an emotional rush, playing music may provide a mental boost. It turns out that musical training has benefits to the tune of improved under standing of grammatical rules and sharper auditory perception.<\/p>\n

Though music\u2019s tendency to get charged with cultural, religious and emotional meaning may complicate things for scientists seeking its roots and benefits, it\u2019s that same tendency that makes pursuing the \u201cwhat,\u201d \u201cwhy\u201d and \u201chow\u201d of music worthwhile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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