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Music and Brain
Music and Brain
Music and Brain
Brain
Music is the manifestation of the human spirit, similar to
language. Its greatest practitioners have conveyed to
mankind things not possible to say in any other language. If
we do not want these things to remain dead treasures, we
must do our utmost to make the greatest possible number of
people understand their idiom.
Zoltán Kodály
Brain Response to Music
Right hemisphere of the brain
Activated when you hear melodies with a variety of pitch and timbre
It also “lights up” when people play music by ear.
Left hemisphere of the brain
“Lights Up” when you learn to read music, understand key signature
and notation, and follow the sequence of notes.
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This is your brain on music
References
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/
humanbody/body/interactives/organs/
brainmap/index.shtml
http://www.classicalforums.com/articles/
Music_Brain.html
http://www.menc.org/publication/
articles/academic/dickins.htm