As I was saying, the Alpha state is the state in the brains which one has before falling asleep, and is particularly proper to raise intellectual performance. Lozanov, a professor, invented a method which is called suggestopedia and allows you to learn foreign languages ( as he was working with them) in one tenth of the time.This has been demonstrated and in Switzerland they are making a lot of money using his method ( he did not get money out of it). One of the devices which are used is classical music, so the Mozart effect works. I think Mozart music would work or any Baroque music which is linear harmonically speaking. I made some experiments and it does work, and I also suspect my listening to classical music and playing has an influence on the plants nearby, because they usually bloom even when they are not supposed to.
Donatella http://web.tiscali.it/awebd Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 12:16 AM Subject: [LUTE] Re: Music Therapy > Thanks for the skeptical link. Fascinating. I have heard all these > claims > that the music of Mozart has. > > I had an interesting experience with Mozart..... I had a gig in Maui (!!) > about 7 years ago [ a fantastic journey], and I took a sailboat to view > the > humpback whales. The captain of the boat turned off his motor, as it is > apparently not legal to bring a boat to within 100 meters of a whale. > But, > if the whale is close, one can turn the motor off, and the whales could > potentially swim up to the boat [the boat may not approach the whale]. > > So, the captain turned off his motor, and he turned on symphonic music of > Mozart, and the whales actually did swim up to the boat & went underneath > (they were huge beasts). The captain insisted that Mozart would lure the > whales in, because they love Mozart & not other composers. This is not > proof to me, as they may have swum to us out of curiosity with another > composer's music, or perhaps with no music at all. > > ed > > > > > > At 01:18 PM 1/5/2006 -0500, Eugene C. Braig IV wrote: >>At 01:06 PM 1/5/2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> > > > Another potentially interesting use of music is reflected in >> > > > research >> > > > from a music teacher in this country (UK) which purported to show >> > > > that playing Mozart to school pupils increased their capacity to >> > > > learn. >> > >> >The so called Mozart effect was a very attractive hypothesis, but after >> >10 >> >years of research, became clear that unfortunately do not exist. >> >> >>Even worse, the "Mozart effect" largely has become a sustained propaganda >>effort for one man, Campbell, to pedal his brand of snake oil. Here is a >>superficial little summary: >><http://skepdic.com/mozart.html> >> >>Eugene >>> To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
