What will they think of next?! Farmers in Spain have now discovered that playing specific pieces of music by Mozart greatly increases the amount of milk his dairy cows produce as well as enhances the taste by making it sweeter! Here’s what the ABC site had to say: “On Hans Pieter Sieber’s Priegola dairy farm […]
A Fun way to enjoy a Bach Fugue!
You just never know what you’re going to find when you enter an FAO Schwartz Store, do you? I remember taking my daughter there in the late 80’s and we were both just mesmerized by the multi-storied expanse of toys and stuffed animals. There’s also a famous keyboard there and one day, two Juilliard students […]
Music helps to relax the troops too!
NEW YORK – Former Sgt. David Clemo understands the power of music. Although he wasn’t in combat, as a telecommunications specialist stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan, he had to dodge plenty of gunfire and mortars going off around him. When it was over, he would turn to music to help him relax. Now, as a […]
Understanding Human Obsession: Music
This Is Your Brain On Music: understanding a human obsession Daniel Levitin BUY HERE NOW ISBN 978 1 84354 715 0 “With a neuroscientist’s conviction that the as-yet inexplicable is just shadows and dust and cryptic meaning, Daniel Levitin sets out to explain why collections of easily-recognisable sounds have such a profound impact on our […]
What Makes Music Sound So Sweet (or Not)
) — Ever since ancient times, scholars have puzzled over the reasons that some musical note combinations sound so sweet while others are just downright dreadful. The Greeks believed that simple ratios in the string lengths of musical instruments were the key, maintaining that the precise mathematical relationships endowed certain chords with a special, even […]