Music Therapy helps relieve anxiety of cancer Music therapy and cancer are the topics of much research. Music “has Charms to sooth a savage Breast,” wrote playwright William Congreve, “To soften Rocks, or bend a knotted Oak.” But can it soothe those mired in the grief, confusion and pain of cancer diagnosis and treatment? Music […]
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Music, Ear, Mood
You probably know that music, the ear, and your mood and intricately connected. Many people have blogged about the importance of music to our workouts. There has been a lot of research about the effect of music on mood and even matching tempo to heart rate. There also appears to be a magic number for […]
Can Music Improve Test Scores?
Improving Test Scores with Music When I go out to speak to teachers, parents, and education administrators, I usually tell them that a simple way students can improve test scores is by listening to certain types of music such as Mozart’s Sonata for Two Piano’s in D Major before taking a test. This type of music […]
The Music of Nature
Vibrations and Sounds in Nature Today I received this post from my friend Jodi. She has an awesome blog entitled “God is a Verb.” This is just an excerpt, to see the entire post go here. “The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval […]
More research on music with colonoscopies
Those of you keeping up with the progress of my music for surgery invention may remember that a hospital in the NYC area has agreed to do a study on music with colonoscopies, using my headphones and my music. In reading tonight, I came across another study on this topic that was done at Temple […]