Do early music lessons really benefit children?
Author Archive | Dr. Alice Cash
Babies are tuned into rhythm
A study from Cornell in 2005 provides some fascinating insight into the musical and rhythmic talents of infants. Please send me your comments and questions regarding this article or anything about babies and music. Baby has the beat but quickly loses the ability to detect alien rhythms, studies find ITHACA, N.Y. — Babies have us […]
Great-Grandma sings "Hey Daddy" to stop crying baby (priceless)
Hoping that Great-Grandma will see this on Mother’s Day!
Music in the Operating Room: For surgeons, this time
By Dr. Alice Cash on March 8, 2011 in Music and Dental Surgery, Music and Surgery, Music and the Mind-Body, Music in the Hospital
Music and medicine are deeply connected. But what kind of music should your surgeon really be listening to? BY RAHUL PARIKH iStockphoto/lisagagne/Salon PopRX is a new weekly column about the intersection of pop culture and medicine. In 1889 Nietzsche wrote, “Without music life would be a mistake.” As someone who regularly spends a chunk of […]
Remember the Swingle Singers?
By Dr. Alice Cash on February 15, 2011 in Movie Music, music and the heart, Music and the Mind-Body, Music Healing
When I was in high school, I was introduced to the Swingle Singers, singing their fabulous arrangements of Bach preludes and fugues, Scarlatti sonatas, and all kinds of wondrous musical confections. Only in my later years have I even become familiar with the music of people like Jerome Kern and even then, only because […]