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The affective power of music has been written about over the course of thousands of years. You could probably earn a Ph.D. studying it, if you wanted to devote the time to it. There is quite a bit out there in a variety of fields from a variety of perspectives.

For the lay person, I suggest one easy to read book is this: http://www.oliversacks.com/books/musicophilia/ .

To be fair, I haven't looked at the website or the claims being made. 

A few decades ago, I got my hands on a study that looked at the affect of major and minor melodies on people with Alzheimer's. To me the approach--breaking music down into certain elements to test if some characteristics of music produce an effect in a certain population is wrong-headed. I would have recommended an ethnographic approach, such as finding out what music individuals with Alzheimers had been exposed to/had a long historical preference for/ etc. and testing for effects on an individualized basis.

There is credible scholarship in philosophy, psychology, musicology, neuroscience, just to name a few areas. As for me, I have researched some of the historical relationships between music theory and theories of rhetoric. But I have found an interest in a wider diversity of the power of music--not just music as a suasory form of communication.

Where'd I put my bibliography?

Steve

--- In CZ-VZ-Files@yahoogroups.com, "ranczar" <ranczar@...> wrote:
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> You can begin researching this for yourself here: http://www.musictherapy.org/ and here:
> http://www.wmich.edu/musictherapy/
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> --- In CZ-VZ-Files@yahoogroups.com, <synergeezer@> wrote:
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> > Can you point us to peer-reviewed studies that support any of the assertions on your website?
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