In this paper, we wanted to check if classical music can improve the intellectual and practical skills of those who work in very difficult conditions. For this, exposed 44 male students, aged 21-24, with normal BMI (19-24), perfect health, four types stressors, when there is as a sic sound background have no music. The stressors used were vibration, excessive temperature, humidity well strong l...

Art is a product of human creativity; it is a superior skill that can be learned by study, practice and observation. Modern neuroscience and neuroimaging enable study of the processes during artistic performance. Creative people have less marked hemispheric dominance. It was found that the right hemisphere is specialized for metaphoric thinking, playfulness, solution finding and synthesizing, i...

A psychoacoustic experiment has been conducted to determine the difference limen (DL) of the level of music reproduced in a listening room. The effects of three factors on the DL were measured using up to twelve trained subjects. The factors were music motif (Mozart, Elgar, Smashing Pumpkins), listening level (50, 60, 65, 70, 80 dB, A-weighted Leq) and dynamic range. It was hypothesised that th...

The nature of melodic similarity is interrogated through a survey of the different means by which the phenomenon has been studied, examination of methods for measuring melodic similarity, a Monte Carlo analysis of data from the experiment which formed the basis for the ‘ground truth’ used in the MIREX 2005 contest on melodic similarity, and examples of interest in the music of Mozart. Melodic s...

Twenty four hour ambulatory ST segment monitoring was performed on 48 members (43 players and five members of the management/technical team) of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) symphony orchestra without a history of cardiac disease. This period included final rehearsals and live performances (for audience and radio) of music by Richard Strauss and Mozart at the Royal Festival Hall (n...

Music theory has acquired a unique position in between many fields, most notably composition, historical and systematic musicology music pedagogy. Motivated by the topic “music interdisciplinarity”, this essay explores fields spanned today’s seven short chapters. The first chapter describes changes of discipline German-speaking countries since 1960s its development from simple synonym practical...