patients and methods this blinded clinical trial was performed on 60 patients admitted to icu following cabg. patients intubated and those under mechanical ventilation were unable to report their pain. the study population was randomly divided into two groups of control and music intervention groups (preferred music listening). in the intervention group, preferred music (including classical, in...

Introduction: In recent years, music has been employed in many intervention and rehabilitation program to enhance cognitive abilities in patients. Numerous researches show that music therapy can help improving language skills in patients including hearing impaired. In this study, a new method of music training is introduced based on principles of neuroscience and capabilities of Persian languag...

 Environmental enrichment is one of the methods for improving fish growth performance. In the present trial, the effects of both light color and music on growth performance and survival of goldfish (Carassius auratus) (initial mean weight: 4.15±0.08 g) were investigated for 2 months. Two light color treatments (red light and white light) and three music treatments (M0: without music, M30:30 min...

Background. Music has been seen as a motivator to help individuals who are not persistent enough to do a full set of exercises. However, the effect of long-term using music has not been determined, especially for amateur students who participated in Physical Education courses. Objectives: The purpose of the study was to find out the effect of popular music on female physical fitness students w...

How is it possible for song and dance to exist in political incarceration and manifest itself later as public policy responding to apartheid atrocities? Examining the body of songs, oral history accounts, and eye-witness reports provided by fellow-prisoners of Mandela on Robben Island prison, I uncover a psychological environment mediated through music and dance--within the confines of a politi...

music is a social phenomenon that is in conjunction with many aspects of human beings’ life today. in recent years, some forms of music have become widespread that are not from indigenous origins. indeed, these are new forms that challenge iranian cultural values. meanwhile, youth are the main consumers of these forms of music. because many of youth who are heavy consumers of music are living i...

This research is motivated by the development of music industry, in order to obtain new results, through extensive and revolutionary actions move from current quality a one. The specific hypothesis study industry based on consideration dilemma: although leaps interruptions evolution favor growth considerably expand musical activity, they do not result totally state accompanied highlighting valu...

This paper presents and defends the following hypothesis about language and tonal music: All formal differences between language and music are a consequence of differences in their fundamental building blocks. In all other respects, language and music are identical. Extending and adapting Lerdahl and Jackendoff's (1983, GTTM) model of musical structure, we argue that music, like language, conta...