Written by well-known Kodály educator Joy Nelson, The Music Effect is an engaging, ready-to-use resource for teachers who want to lead children to music literacy and lifelong music enjoyment and participation. Designed for the kindergarten classroom. Includes a wealth of energizing and imaginative multi-sensory activities, focusing on increasing students' musical knowledge, skill, and conceptual development. The comb binding creates a lay-flat book that is perfect for study and performance. The accompanying CD contains recordings of all chants, songs, and orchestral pieces included in the lessons and activities.
This book studies the working efficacy of Leonard Cohen's song Hallelujah in the context of today's network culture.
First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Rings on her fingers and bells on her toes , She shall have music wherever she goes . " This is wonderful , " said the king , " but how does the fine lady have music wherever she goes ? " " Ah , " said the visitor .
The otherworldly yet familiar pleas to "phone home" in the enchanting E.T." "These are examples of the different ways sound can contribute to the overall dramatic impact of a film.
Here are dramatic accounts of how music is used to deal with everything from anxiety to cancer, high blood pressure, chronic pain, dyslexia, and even mental illness.
The award-winning creator of the documentary The Music Instinct traces the efforts of visionary researchers and musicians to understand the biological foundations of music and its relationship to the brain and the physical world. 35,000 ...
When the lyrics of modern songs extol cop killing, deviant sexual behavior, Satanism, and suicide, and when rock concerts sometimes turn violent, lives are lost, and communities trashed in the...
This agenda-setting collection will prove indispensable to anyone interested in innovative approaches to the study of sound and its many intersection with affect and emotions"--
The tempo a flanker task, which measures attentional control (Eriksen of a musical stimulus presented before the cognitive task and Eriksen, 1974), demonstrated that positive affect (i.e., higher was also correlated to spatial ability ...
Does listening to Mozart make us more intelligent? Does the size of the brain matter? Can we communicate with the dead? This book presents a survey of common myths about the mind & brain.