Hearing Your Music

Music therapy is a relatively recent development in complementary health care which is commonly used to help children suffering from a wide range of psychological and learning disorders. Although many paediatricians acknowledge that creating and listening to music can be of considerable therapeutic value to children, particularly in encouraging communication skills, until very recently there had been no controlled studies to investigate the exact nature of any such benefits. Continue Reading »

Researchers at the Bryan Memorial Hospital, Lincoln, USA recently investigated the influence of music therapy on mood and anxiety of patients undergoing heart surgery.

Ninety-six patients who underwent elective, heart bypass surgery at the cardiovascular intensive care and progressive care units of a midwestern community hospital participated in the study. The mean age of the patients was 67 years, with an age range of 37 to 84 years. 68% of the patients were men and 32% were women. Continue Reading »

Will listening to music make you smarter? Will learning to play a musical instrument make your brain grow larger than normal?

Questions like these ones have been popping up all over the place in the past few years, and not just in scientific journals either.

In recent times the media has been fascinated by the research surrounding brain development and music, eagerly reporting on the latest studies to the delight of the music-loving parents of young children. Continue Reading »

Here is a list of the Top 7 Best Female Solo Singer in Indonesia that have been popular and have very good sound quality. Having lots of fans. Continue Reading »

Medieval Music

While musical life was undoubtedly rich in the early Medieval era, as attested by artistic depictions of instruments, writings about music, and other records, the only repertory of music which has survived from before 800 to the present day is the plainsong liturgical music of the Roman Catholic Church, the largest part of which is called Gregorian chant. Pope Gregory I, who gave his name to the musical repertory and may himself have been a composer, is usually claimed to be the originator of the musical portion of the liturgy in its present form, though the sources giving details on his contribution date from more than a hundred years after his death. Many scholars believe that his reputation has been exaggerated by legend. Most of the chant repertory was composed anonymously in the centuries between the time of Gregory and Charlemagne. Continue Reading »