8/19/12

Classical Music and the Benefits to the Listener.


History of classical music

Classical music was first discovered in the year 590. who found it was Pope Gregory the Great, he recorded gospel songs with Gregorian notation. This notation uses a beam line 4 notes, and there is no rhythm notation, or are single / monofoni.

Then in about the year 1600 found the so-called Basso ostinato, or moving bass crazy, originators are italian people. Basso ostinato is a series of tones that move step by step, down or up. because this direction is considered boring melody, melody then appears opposite. Composer Giovani Perluigi da Palestrina, is pioneering this. This composer, composing theory melody of music with lots of (polyphony), so that each tone or point moves independently or counterclockwise, and came the theory of counterpoint. Johan Sebastian Batch, Frederic Handle, Jean remeau, and Correli  they play with this technique.

in the classical era (1750-1825) discovered the composition of the chord, which is based on a three-vote. then developed into four sound even more. This music is called music homofoni, and there are variations kontrapuntis melody. after this era, then get into the romantic era. in this era, there is a full orchestration of progress (the invention of musical instruments). example of this era are usually used on musical ballet, opera music, and walsa Vienna.

Benefits of listening to classical music

There are so many benefits we get from listening to classical music, the first benefit is to sharpen the mind. classical music produces alpha waves that can calm the mind and can stimulate the limbic system of brain neuron network. this is very influential when we were learning, classical music can create an atmosphere that stimulates the mind and concentration, the effect on memory and spatial perception.

Two professors from the university california, proves that listening to Mozart music for 10 minutes, can improve IQ and EQ. Classical music can balance the right brain (EQ​​) and the left brain (IQ). left brain function to reason and logic. while the right brain for creative thinking and imagination. 2 balance of the brain is indispensable for human beings.

Then how classical music can balance the brain? most of which are taught to children in schools is to activate the left hemisphere, because math and science must always get more servings of other subjects. studied classical music is the solution to balance it. when studying classical music, the child must read the note beams, this means that he must count. when playing music, he must know the dynamic songs. for example, he should be able to play the songs with piano (soft) or forte (loud) in turns. he also must be able to play songs clearly if there is a "crescendo" (from smooth to hard) or a "decrescendo" (from hard to soft). There are also playing a legato technique (not unite into a single unit) or "staccato" (play the notes with a broken voice). it certainly can improve the right brain, because the use is feel, not think.

The romantic classical music can also enhance or create a sense of affection and sympathy. Classical music can also Increasing the level of compassion and empathy, and affect people in the focus of energy. other interesting fact is, cows that listen to classical music, can help improve their milk production.

Classical music for health and for the baby.

Music, especially classical music believed to reduce pain. and it was true. from various studies, it was the successor of nerve pain, is the same as the nerve musical successor. it is used by doctors to relieve the pain of a woman in childbirth. also used by dentists to decrease pain patients. but it can also be used to eliminate some of the symptoms of cancer and side effects of cancer therapy.
whereas in infants, especially newborn babies. can expand the classical music played a large brain volume, adding the main activities of the nerves, helps power the abstract imagination of a child's normal growth. whereas for infants born prematurely, when listening to classical music, can be observed that his face was no longer visible suffering and his heartbeat was normal.



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