I can remember a time when chiefs of service or operating room (OR) supervisors would not allow music in the operating room. Today, if any such restrictions still exist, they are the exception rather than the rule. As Drs Lies and Zhang point out in their excellent article, “Prospective Randomized Study of the Effect of Music on the Efficiency of Surgical Closures,” music in the OR has become u...

The main objective of this prospective, randomized, blind, cross-over experimental study was to evaluate the effect classical music on depth sedation and propofol requirements for induction anaesthesia in dogs. Twenty dogs were involved, each subjected three different treatments with a 3-month gap: Chopin music, Mozart no via loudspeakers. premedicated acepromazine butorphanol by intramuscular ...

Did Beethoven and Mozart have more in common with each other than Clapton and Hendrix? The current research demonstrated the widely reported Mozart Effect as only partly significant. Event-related brain potentials (ERPs) were recorded from 16 professional classical and rock musicians during a standard 2 stimulus visual oddball task, while listening to classical and rock music. During the oddbal...

Aim: To evaluate the performance on automated perimetry (AP) after listening to a Mozart sonata in normal subjects naive to AP. Methods: 60 naive normal subjects underwent AP (SITA 242). The study group (30 subjects) underwent AP after listening to Mozart’s Sonata for Two Pianos in D Major and the control group (30 subjects) underwent AP without previous exposure to the music. Results: The stud...

We present a study on using a Mnemonic Self-Organizing Map for clustering a very homogeneous collection of music. In particular, we create a map containing the complete works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. We study and analyze the clustering capabilities of the SOM on this very focused collection. We furthermore present a web-based application for exploring the map and accessing the music it repre...

AIM To evaluate the performance on automated perimetry (AP) after listening to a Mozart sonata in normal subjects naive to AP. METHODS 60 naive normal subjects underwent AP (SITA 24-2). The study group (30 subjects) underwent AP after listening to Mozart's Sonata for Two Pianos in D Major and the control group (30 subjects) underwent AP without previous exposure to the music. RESULTS The st...

The purpose of the article is to reveal artistic images in "The Little Prince" ballet performance by Radu Poklitar with music V. A. Mozart and Ukrainian lullabies performed Maria Pylypchak. methodology work based on cultural analysis elements musicological analysis. provides familiarity performance, production which took place theatre stage. Based synthesis obtained research results, regulariti...

Polyphonic music classification remains a very challenging area in the field of music information retrieval. In this study, we explore the performance of monophonic models on single parts that are extracted from the polyphony. The presented method is specifically designed for the case of voiced polyphony, but can be extended to any type of music with multiple parts. On a dataset of 207 Haydn an...

The “Mozart effect” is an increase in spatial reasoning scores after listening to a Mozart piano sonata. Both the production and interpretation of the effect are controversial. Many studies have failed to replicate the original effect. Other studies have explained a Mozart effect as being caused by changes in arousal or differences in preferences of the listener. F. H. Rauscher, K. D. Robinson,...

introduction: this study was designed to investigate the effects of music in wistar rats after sub-chronic treatment of simvastatin. the rats were orally administered with either simvastatin or saline (controls). after 4 weeks of drug treatment, the rats were selected for behavioral studies. the rats were exposed to music 24 hours before behavioral tests (mozart’s piano sonata, kv361, largo). r...