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thats powerfuls wisdom ! thanks for webby ...chaz





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From: "fzfan26116161" <smw-mail@...>
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Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2014 5:01 PM
Subject: [CZ-VZ-Files] Re: OT My new electronic music project


> 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.
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> For the lay person, I suggest one easy to read book is this: 
> http://www.oliversacks.com/books/musicophilia/ .
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> To be fair, I haven't looked at the website or the claims being made.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Where'd I put my bibliography?
>
> Steve
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> --- 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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