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Although it is only in recent times that scientists have started to document the effects of music, the qualities of music were understood even in earliest times. Evidence suggests that dance and song preceded speech, which means that music is the original language of humans. Researchers have found that about two-thirds of the inner ears cilia resonate only at the higher frequencies that are commonly found in music (3,000 - 20,000 Hz). ...
There has long been an awareness that music affects us, even if the reasons are not clear. ... This is perhaps the first recorded use of music for therapy. The positive influence of music may have also saved Beethovens life in the early eighteenth century. ... As Louis Pasteurs Germ Theory of Illness launched the era of scientific medicine, music largely faded from formal medical settings. ...
American medicine first started experimenting with the therapeutic use of music during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. As early as 1804, Edwin Atlee, wrote an essay in which he hoped to show that music, "has a powerful influence upon the mind, and consequently on the body." Modern music therapy began to develop in the 1940s when psychotherapists used music to calm anxious patients, and music therapy programs were established in several university psychology departments.
The relatively new field of neuro-musicology has been developed to experiment with music as a tool and to dissect and shape it to the needs of society. ...
Music Therapy Heart Attacks The latest research demonstrates that music therapy has a variety of healing effects. ... One group received only standard care, the second group practiced a form of meditation, and the third group listened to sedative classical and popular music. ... The meditation and music groups showed significantly lower heart rates and levels of stress hormones. The music group was the least stressed. ... Common side effects of chemotherapy include nausea and vomiting. A music-imagery program significantly reduced the nausea and the amount of vomiting. ...
In one study of night-shift nurses who suffered from health problems, a twenty-minutes tape of sedative music and guided imagery reduced their levels of stress hormones. Blood Pressure/Heart Rate A study at the State University of New York suggests that music could help prevent the rise in blood pressure that some people experience while performing potentially stressful tasks. The study tested the effects of music on 50 male surgeons as they performed mental arithmetic tasks. The surgeons performed this task under three conditions: while listening to music of their own choice, listening to Pachelbels "Canon in D", and in silence. Blood pressures increased the least when the surgeons were listening to music of their own choice. ... The type of music that the surgeons selected for themselves did not seem to affect their outcomes. Forty-six of the participants selected classical music, two selected jazz, and two selected Irish folk. ...
The entrainment effect offers one other explanation for the physiological effects of music. ... Studies on adults have also been able to duplicate this effect with music. ... It is possible to change a persons heart rate with music that is written in a specific tempo. When patients with a racing heart listen to music with about 50 to 60 beats per minute, their heart rate usually slows down to synchronize with the slower rhythm of the music. ... So it is with music. ... Neurologic research is discovering that the brain comes into synthetic activity in response to music. ... "
Exercise Light rock music is often used in various exercise programs. ... Memory The right hemisphere of the brain, which has to do with feelings, imagery, and the unconscious, is activated by music. ... Using music, they are often able to recall lost or suppressed experiences, which in turn may eliminate the emotional underpinning for their physical ailments.
Approximate Word count = 3039
Approximate Pages = 12.2
(250 words per page double spaced)
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