Apollo, God of Music and Medicine Apollo, God of Music and Medicine was the image I wanted, when I first started my website, www.HealingMusicEnterprises.com, way back in 1999. One of my first thoughts was to have a theme that would say music and medicine, music as medicine, music for healing, and sound as healing, […]
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Can music improve your workout?
By Dr. Alice Cash on September 10, 2009 in Music and Cardiovascular Health, Music and Exercise, Music and the Mind-Body
More than 7,000 runners who recently raced in a half-marathon in London were under the influence of a powerful performance-enhancing stimulant — pop music. The music at London’s “Run to the Beat” race was selected on the basis of the research and consultation of sport psychologist Costas Karageorghis. He has learned how to devise soundtracks that […]
Music and Your Vocabulary
In 1982, researchers from the University of North Texas performed a three-way test on postgraduate students to see if music could help in memorizing vocabulary words. The students were divided into three groups. Each group was given three tests – a pretest, a posttest, and a test a week after the first two tests. All […]
What does the unborn baby hear?
What can the unborn baby hear? Of all the questions I get, this is probably one of the top five. We know for sure that by the beginning of the second trimester, the growing infant’s ear is functional. In the beginning baby mainly hears the sounds of mother’s heartbeat and digestive sounds. But with each […]
An amazing new vocal group-creativity plus!
Who are The Voca People? The Voca people are 8 friendly aliens from the planet Voca, a musical planet that has no verbal communication but use vocal expressions only. They have heard the music from earth for decades now and with their imitation abilities they have decided to pay a one evening tribute to humanity […]