The Pointy End
Alzheimer's documentary 'Alive Inside' pushes for music therapy
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- Monday, 04 August 2014
"I walked into these hallways with hundreds of residents in wheelchairs just sitting on the side of the hallway, and I had felt like I'd entered into Dante's 'Inferno,'".
Don't care about music? You are not alone
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- Monday, 04 August 2014
They are an elusive breed. Seemingly closer to myth than reality, a whisper heard in passing, a thought quickly discarded.
What are the weirdest lyrics of all time?
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- Monday, 04 August 2014
The survey, set up by streaming service Blinkbox, quizzed 2,000 adults about the most bamboozling phrases in song.
How Art Is Crucial To Understanding The Human Mind
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- Monday, 04 August 2014
When people were beginning to do theater, music and recitations of poetry, say, in an arena in Greece, they were in fact inquiring about the human mind in very probing ways.
Military bands offer musicians great jobs, similar challenges to orchestras
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- Tuesday, 22 July 2014
In musical circles, there's a lot of disgruntlement that the government doesn't do more to subsidize the arts. In one area, though, the government does plenty.
Music Criticism Is Broken
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- Tuesday, 22 July 2014
Learning how to talk about music is almost as important—and in some ways as important—as learning how to write music.
The Dangers of Secondhand Music
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- Tuesday, 22 July 2014
Like secondhand smoke, the consistent exposure to music everywhere has resulted in a slow poisoning: the invalidation of music as a uniquely singular event.
An Empathic Musical Orchestra -- A String of New Relationships
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- Tuesday, 22 July 2014
Research shows that music affects our creativity and productivity. A series of experiments has investigated the relationship between the playing of background music during the performance of repetitive work and the efficiency in such a task.
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