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Annotated Bibliography-Final Draft
Annotated Bibliography-Final Draft
Mira Naumann
English 12
3/25/19
https://www.gethealthystayhealthy.com/articles/10-health-benefits-of-music
This source is about how music increases people’s health. People are born with the ability
to tell the difference between music and noise. Our brains have different pathways
processing music. Music can influence our blood pressure, heart rate, breathing, and
blood. The effects on music are not fully understood but studies have shown that the
brain releases a chemical called dopamine that has a positive effect on humans.
According to some researchers, music can increase our health and well being. Music
decreases stress by relaxing with a slow tempo, low pitch, and no lyrics. It lessens anxiety
and improves exercises because it boosts your mental and physical stimulation. Music
also improves cognition for people with Alzheimer by recalling seemingly lost memories
and help maintain mental abilities. Furthermore, it helps children with autism spectrum
disorder who showed social improvement and communication skills while listening to
music. The source relates to the topic, because it explains the health benefits that are
https://www.theschooloflife.com/thebookoflife/the-importance-of-music/
In that article, the author discusses why music is important to us and why we need it. The
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author describes humans as emotional beings who are not fully conscious about their
emotions and don’t give them their full attention, so they don’t have the opportunity to
fully developed. For that problem, music offers amplification and encouragement.
Specific music offers encouragement and confidence for specific feelings and pushes
them forward. The author claims that music doesn’t invent emotions, it makes them
louder. He arguments that boosting emotions might be risky, but it actually strengthens
our capacities for calm, forgiveness, love and appreciation. Music helps us fully
recognize the identity of a moment. Overall music helps us to get our emotions in order
and “reduce the noise” in order to allow our own best reactions to be more prominent and
secure. The article overall relates to the topic by explaining how important music is to
https://www.coursera.org/lecture/importance-power-music-our-society/music-and-identit
y-an-introduction-Bf9yU
This video is about music and how it related to our identity. Music tells a story about our
identity. Our identity is not completely fixed but influenced by our parents, our location
and the choices we make. Our identity is our self-in process and music is an instrument to
experience that process. We pick a piece of music that affirms our ideas and satisfies our
desires. It is said that because music is all around us it shapes our desires and preferences
because you identify yourself with certain music. Also, you are part of a collective
identity. Means that when listening to certain music you are part of a community who is
listening to the same music. Getting included and part of a collective identity shows
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hospitality and binds us together, for example, the national anthem. It identifies yourself
with the country. It relates to the topic by showing how important music is for our
Frometa, R. (2018, July 17). Importance of Music in Human Life. Retrieved from
http://ventsmagazine.com/2018/07/17/importance-of-music-in-human-life/
In that newspaper article, the importance of music in our everyday life is discussed. The
author says that people listen to music is to entertain themselves. Means it takes your
boredom away. If you listen to music your work capacity will increase and it makes you
happy. It can even cure mentally ill people, their condition improves and the author calls
it “music medicine”. Furthermore, music is of very big importance in our lives, because it
stimulates our old memories in our brain, which let us remind our old friends and people
been forgotten. It reminds us of the relationships that we connected with that song. Also,
you can overcome your bad emotions with music. Music benefits you calming down after
a stressful moment or day. It relates to the topic, because music is important for everyday
people of all ages, old and young. They don’t have to listen to the same music but also
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPDSXgP22LE
The video is about how important it is to get education in music, academically and
socially. Music advances focus, vision and critical thinking and promotes individualism
and
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creativity. It strengthens the audiovisual, auditory and motorcoticy and their connections
between them. Neuroscientists even found out that the corpus, the link between left and
right brain is bigger when playing an instrument. That's why music contributes “curing”
people’s disabilities. It is shown that musicians have a 7 ½ IQ points more than non
musicians. Also you should educate music at a young age and you get better results while
using your brain. It relates to the topic, because the video think music is so important that
Greenlaw, L. (2017). The importance of music to girls. London: Faber & Faber.
The book is about a girl having an experience jumping accidentally through a window
and since then she can’t stop thinking about music while growing up. It plays in the 45s.
She takes piano, ballet, and violin lessons. The girl struggles with identification,
music (disco girl, hippy girl, punk) becomes her social currency as she attempts to fit in.
She gets on a journey trying to find music to describe her feelings and herself. The book
Mitchell-Baker, D. (2017, March 08). The importance of a soundtrack to a film. Retrieved from
https://www.theedgesusu.co.uk/features/2017/03/12/the-importance-of-a-soundtrack-to-a
-film/
The article talks about the importance of music in movies. First of all, there is a big
significance between a film’s soundtrack and a film’s score. The score is the part in
movies playing between and during scenes. Scores are used to build tension, set a tone
and convey
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emotion. Soundtracks are released as a piece and merchandise or promote the film. By
playing a score it gives own personality to the movie. The music is used to underline the
emotions and increase them. Also, the soundtrack should become instantly memorable
and recognizable so when people hear the song they will remember the movie. The
importance of music in movies relates to my topic because music is not just important in
our life but also in entertainment and is a big source to get across their intentions.
https://sites.psu.edu/sbxoxo/2015/10/22/influence-of-music-on-dance/
In that weblog is the influence of music on dancing discussed. Music makes us dance and
impacts on how we dance. Dance needs music to set the mood, drop the beat, and create
the motivation needed to start moving. It plays an important role in how music makes us
feel. So we can express the emotions in our dancing. That is why we’re having different
dance styles. There is always a typical genre that matches with a music style. Music also
plays an integral role in daily activities, like supporting us while working out and creates
a lively and more fun atmosphere while working on assignments or driving. Depending
on how fast the beats are we adapt our body movement. And our productivity level gets
up. Furthermore, the lyrics of a song can be portrayed through dance just further
enhancing the relationship they share. The movements go in sync with the speed of the
music and the melody combined with the footwork can definitely be classified as a work
of art. The topic relates to the importance of music, because it defines its importance in
dancing.
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https://www.gilbertgalindo.com/importanceofmusic
That source is about how music influences our society. Music is considered as art and
people have the desire to create. It is important to create music or listen to it for
enjoyment,
emotional response, performing and creating. The author focuses on classical music and
how society may think to go to a classical concert needs special requirements and claims,
like well education, dress a certain way, being rich or old. But that’s what the mainstream
society thinks and it shouldn’t be true. American society needs to believe that everyone
can find worth and enjoyment in classical/concert music. Music can also stimulate the
mind. There are many ways to which one can listen and bring attention to music. It can
raise your mood in certain ways. Learning to play music carries a lot of advantages and
skills, like being able to critique music, playing with others in order to collaborate and
playing alone, composing and reading music and understanding the history of music and
Why is Music Education in Schools Important? (2019, March 09). Retrieved from
https://theinspiredclassroom.com/2017/05/why-is-music-education-in-schools-important/
This source is about why music education is important in schools. It is argued with five
reasons why you should music. Music stimulates brain development in children. Various
studies have found that engagement with music can lead to an improvement in brain
students who didn’t. This study shows the importance of receiving music education, rather
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than simply turning on background music when students are doing work in other subjects.
Music education also enhances reading comprehension and abilities for children. Music is
also a way to connect with people. It encourages them from playing together. Especially
through music, it is proven that it creates a bond between children. Also, music integrates
many different subjects, like musical skills, mathematical skills, reading and writing skills,
and historical knowledge. For example, music is an excellent way to incorporate fractions
and lyric analysis. Furthermore, music teaches discipline. Students are expected to learn
outside the school and it creates the possibility to schedule and organize their life. Last but