**** CLASSICAL MUSIC THREAD ****

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How Does The Brain Respond To Classical Music?

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Music of all varieties has been shown to generate health benefits for the mind and body. Listening to music can lower blood pressure, induce relaxation, reduce anxiety and even increase your libido. Some have asserted that music, particularly classical music, can boost cognitive function.
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Duke University's Dr. Kevin Labar says that classical music can improve your intellectual performance, but not by raising your IQ. Classical music can produce a calming effect by releasing pleasure-inducing dopamine and inhibiting the release of stress hormones, all of which generates a pleasant mood. "And inducing a pleasant mood," says Labar, "seems to clarify thinking."
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Dr. Claudius Conrad frequently listens to Mozart in the operating room, but the surgeon says the music offers significant benefits to his patients as well. He conducted a study in 2007 in which he treated postoperative patients to Mozart sonatas. The patients responded with a reduced need for pain medication, lower blood pressure and lower levels of stress hormones, all of which are music therapy benefits that were demonstrated in other studies. But Conrad also found that the patients' brains released 50 percent more pituitary growth hormone, which reduces inflammation and promotes healing. His study was published in the December 2007 issue of "Critical Care Medicine."

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I really enjoyed that. Nice call.

Effect Of Classical Music On The Brain

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Classical music affects the brain’s organization and abilities, through its melody and rhythm. The rhythm raises the level of serotonin produced in your brain. Serotonin is a neurotransmitter, involved in the transmission of nerve impulses that helps maintaining joyous feelings. When the brain produces serotonin, tension is eased. In fact depression is a consequence of the scarce production of this hormone. Serotonin is released when the brain is “positively shocked”.
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Music’s rhythm can also stimulate other natural cadencies of the body, resembling the heartbeat, or the Alfa-rhythm of the brain, and this effect is used to counter the development of clinical depression. The melody instead, is the “sparkle” that catalyses the creative process in our minds.
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The commonly known “Mozart effect” is a phenomena that suggests the improvement on the performance of spatio-temporal reasoning and short- term memory through the listening of complex music, such as Mozart’s two-piano concertos. Music, especially the one from the “baroque” period with 60 beats per minute beat pattern, affects the amplitude and frequency of brain waves, measurable through and electro – encephalogram.

This happens because music stimulates the left and right hemispheres of the brain at same moment. The contemporaneous activation of the two lobes boosts learning and information intake, therefore augmenting cognitive skills. It has been proven that learning may be increased to at least fivefold, through the using of this musical style.
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The rigorous order of the music from the baroque and classical periods causes the brain to experience more serotonin release, letting the body and mind perform better when listening to these logical compositions. This order includes specific patterns in rhythm and pitch, character contrast, repetitions, and alterations of the theme. Modern music doesn’t provide the right balance of rhythm and melody, thus not sorting the correct effect on a person’s brain.

It is the beat that establishes the crucial effect of music on our body, together with the enhancement of cognitive and creative functions of the brain, supported from the right melody.

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Listening to this one just before bed..... AMAZING dreams!!

Kismet

more awesomeness.....



Kismet

awww....... Moonlight Sonata :)



Kismet

Anhedonic, not sure if you consider Hans Zimmer 'classical'..... but I consider this one to be! Chevaliers de Sangreal

Prelude in E minor

How about a 'Classical' Remake?

Kismet

Oh snap good timing, I was literally just listening to this on my ipod.

I am totally new to the classical genre so I'm still getting my feet wet.

Should we just try and imagine what it sounds like?

:ericcartman:

Here is a friendly tip if you purchase & listen to digital music.... On Amazon's mp3 site you can find 'Best Of' type classical compilations from the essential composers consisting of anywhere from 40-99 tracks per collection for just $0.99 to $1.99 PER ALBUM. Simply search 'Must Have (Beethoven, Mozart, Bach, Handel, etc)'.... I think I purchased nearly 300 classical tracks for about $5... 'Must Have' is the name of the series of compilations and there appears to be ones for each of the famous composers. Can't beat that value.

it's unfortunate that most common folk don't appreciate classical, lots seem to label it "high brow".....growing up, I was a funk, rock, pop and some country listener and sadly missed a lot of good listening time by not getting into Classical early on....

BTW, Analog Rules!!!

My absolute favourite classical music song is this

Vocalise by Rachmaninoff [link to www.youtube.com]

Satie and villa lobos

Oh and by the way; How do you post a video so that you can watch it on the actual thread?

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And thanks for the tread OP, I love this!

Good stuff!

A classic remake of a classical song:

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