which note or chord will sound next or how dynamic will develop (grow up or down) etc. One researcher suggests, that music is setting up expectations of what might happen, i.e. They see a teacher on a screen, but play on a piano, pressing piano keys, and not computer keys. Listening to music off-screen will not put extra burden on our eyes.Įven when students have their music lessons on-line, the actual activity is hands-on. Our vision is terribly, awfully, painfully overstimulated.

To complete this brief review, I want to mention three things that are specifically relevant to our time. After 10 minutes of listening to Mozart, students showed 30 points higher on SAT tests than a group which didn’t listened to Mozart (after learning about it, I actually forced my kids to listed to a very same Sonata before their important exams.) After this original discovery, many more experiments have been conducted with the same result: music improves cognitive performance. There was a well-publicized discovery in mid-1990s, “Mozart effect”. It was measured, that faster music increased speed of exercises for 10%, and slower music decreased it for 10%. (Actually, music outperformed prayer in mood-boosting.)Ĭlassical and meditation music provides greatest benefits heavy metal and techno is ineffective and can even be detrimental.Įnergetic, upbeat music improves endurance and performance. Thus, music is a safe, low-risk way to reduce anxiety and depression. Independent Study on Theory, Ear-Training, Dictation & Sight-Singing. The group that was instructed to intentionally try boosting their mood achieved a better mood indeed, while people who just listened (without trying to improve their mood) didn’t feel happier… Assistance and Preparation for Auditions. It’s not just our intuitive knowledge scientists conducted multiple experiments.ĭuring some experiments, music lowered blood pressure and heart rate, breathing rate, oxygen demands (signs of stress) at the other - decreased the needs for supplementary intravenous sedation.Īnother group of scientists checked two groups of people who listened to music every day for two weeks. We are stressed, exhausted, upset, worrying… We need to be helped! But what if before counseling and pills we use… music? The 2020 is not the best year for everyone. This is when I realized that music is not only beautiful, or emotional, or engaging - it’s actually healing. And - oh miracle! - at the end of the lesson, after I repeated it 8 times, life was good again! I remember, I was playing the Cavatina of Ludmilla from the opera “Ruslan and Ludmilla”, sunny and playful tune. One of the requirements was a music dictation: a student was supposed to write down the melody by notes, after listening to it played by a teacher for 8 times.

I was devastated… but still had to go to my private student: I was tutoring a girl for the music college entrance exam in ear training. whose relationship were about to die, it was indeed. It was a “horrible” day - well, for a 20 y.o.

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