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Is Pandemic Brain Changing Your Taste in Music? You're Not Alone
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- Tuesday, 13 October 2020
Too much Grateful Dead? The music you loved in high school? We asked a Music Therapist why our listening habits have been so weird.
Is the "Mozart Effect" real? New analysis indicates that music can help epilepsy
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- Tuesday, 13 October 2020
The idea that listening to Mozart may have beneficial effects on mental health arose from early findings in the 1990s. There have been several studies since, but many involved small numbers of people, or have been of variable quality, leading to mixed evidence overall.
Une nouvelle étude révèle les étonnantes propriétés acoustiques de Stonehenge
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- Tuesday, 13 October 2020
Des chercheurs britanniques démontrent que l’agencement particulier des pierres du célèbre sanctuaire préhistorique aurait pour but des effets acoustiques bien précis : il amplifierait les sons à l'intérieur du cercle tout en les rendant inaudibles de l'extérieur.
La música de las estrellas ya es una realidad
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- Tuesday, 13 October 2020
Por primera vez en la historia, la NASA traduce las imágenes del universo a un pentagrama musical. Cada telescopio “toca” su propia partitura; “on demand” podemos escuchar un solo o componer una sinfonía.
The Hidden Costs of Streaming Music
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- Sunday, 27 September 2020
Listening to music on the Internet feels clean, efficient, environmentally virtuous. Instead of accumulating heaps of vinyl or plastic, we unpocket our sleek devices and pluck tunes from the ether.
Music on the brain
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- Sunday, 27 September 2020
A new study looks at differences between the brains of Japanese classical musicians, Western classical musicians and nonmusicians.
Beethoven ‘cancelled’? Why people are debating whether the Fifth Symphony is elitist
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- Sunday, 27 September 2020
Two classical music podcasters have sparked an explosive debate: is Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony a “symbol of elitism and exclusion”?
Comment sont nées les comédies musicales ?
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- Sunday, 27 September 2020
Quels sont les secrets de Starmania ?Qu’est-ce qu’une comédie musicale? Comment est né ce genre théâtral mêlant comédie, chant et danse? Pourquoi Broadway, célèbre avenue de New York, en est devenu l’emblème ?
La música ayuda al cerebro a formar recuerdos a largo plazo
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- Sunday, 27 September 2020
Debido a que las emociones mejoran los procesos de la memoria y la música evoca emociones fuertes, esta podría participar en la formación de recuerdos.
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