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The Musical Family

The Musical Family

The musical family is enjoying practicing the Language of Music. Fun 🙂

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Training the Brain to Become Pitch Perfect

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The findings suggest that adults can acquire absolute pitch even without that early exposure to pitches and musical labels.

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The Sounds of Science

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Trevor Cox investigates the science of sound research (1/2). Bad Vibes and Good Vibrations. Why do we find some sounds pleasant while others grate on the ears?

Music is not just an auditory cheese cake, music is something that has an enormous power for learning, therapy, development that has been highly underestimated so far.  - Stefan Koelcch

Listen!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0082dx9

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Your Brain on Improv

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Musician and researcher Charles Limb wondered how the brain works during musical improvisation — so he put jazz musicians and rappers in an fMRI to find out. What he and his team found has deep implications for our understanding of creativity of all kinds.

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The Meaning of Music

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Michael Tilson Thomas is giving a great overview of the meaning of music as an emotional language and channel of expression.

"...you know all that you need to know, you can start anywhere..."

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African Music Tradition, a talk by Alfred Ladzekpo

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Alfred Ladzekpo, a master drummer from the Ewe tribe in Ghana and a Prof. of music in Cal Arts (USA), is talking about his music tradition. He is referring to music as a language, learning through listening , social aspects, improvisation and much more... BigEar has much respect.