comparison of the effect of instrumental music and voices of holy quran on anxiety of woman before cesarean.     sharifi a [1] *, alipour a [2] , baharloei s [3]     received: 24 aug, 2012 accepted: 20 nov, 2012   abstract   background & aims : fear and anxiety before surgery characterized with the stress with arousal of the autonomic nervous system that causes physical and psychological change...

ethno-musicology is an academic field encompassing various approaches to the study of music that emphasize its cultural, social, material, cognitive, biological, and other dimensions or contexts instead of its isolated ‘sound’ component or any particular repertoire. the term ‘ethno-musicology’ became common in1950, although the emergence of the field can be traced back to the late nineteenth ce...

Carnatic music, the classical music of South India, is rich in melodic and devotional content. Vocal renderings effectively convey the devotional aspect, and a variety of instruments enhance the melodic effect of the vocal renderings. After briefly tracing the origins and early development of Carnatic music, we will describe vocal and instrumental renderings and provide a comparison. We also al...

BACKGROUND In this study we investigated the association between instrumental music training in childhood and outcomes closely related to music training as well as those more distantly related. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS Children who received at least three years (M = 4.6 years) of instrumental music training outperformed their control counterparts on two outcomes closely related to music...

Immediate memory for visually presented verbal material is disrupted by concurrent speech, even when the speech is unattended and in a foreign language. Unattended noise does not produce a reliable decrement. These results have been interpreted in terms of a phonological short-term store that excludes non-speechlike sounds. The characteristics of this exclusion process were explored by studying...

Introduction Allocation of dwindling resources force public administrators to make choices and instrumental music program budgets can be cut or even eliminated by state agencies or school districts. Whether or not this is good policy will be examined by the collection and analysis of school level data. Public school instrumental music programs are expensive to operate and maintain, involve spec...