----- Original Message ----- From: Donatella Galletti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Friday, January 6, 2006 4:10 am Subject: [LUTE] Re: Music Therapy
> 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. As nice a hypothesis as this is, Donatella, I still can't put much stock in anecdote. I need formal, peer-reviewed experimentation. If there is really an effect, it should be consistently, statistically, reproduceably demonstrated. It hasn't been, and where tested, it hasn't been reproduceable. I love music and know it has a pleasant effect on my psyche. I'll have to remain skeptical about any touchy-feely pseudo-scientific claims beyond that. Best, Eugene To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
