Comments for Music Makes Our Lives Magical and Meaningful http://musicmagic.wordpress.com Learn about sound healing, music education, and play-list construction. Fri, 18 Jul 2008 02:24:24 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on Inspiring and Interesting Quotes about Music by Maryellen http://musicmagic.wordpress.com/2008/07/16/quotes-about-music/#comment-5 Maryellen Fri, 18 Jul 2008 02:24:24 +0000 http://musicmagic.wordpress.com/?p=34#comment-5 Is the opposite of music silence or noise? Is the opposite of music silence or noise?

]]> Comment on Sound as Light Waves By Iasos by Maryellen http://musicmagic.wordpress.com/2008/07/09/sound-ight-waves/#comment-4 Maryellen Fri, 18 Jul 2008 02:15:17 +0000 http://musicmagic.wordpress.com/?p=8#comment-4 This article brings up an important concept that we allow sound and music to affect us "passively." If someone close to us in a restaurant was repeating one negative phrase after another we'd probably be inclined to move away from them. Yet, we allow ourselves to listen to repetitious negative messages in music and don't think much of it. Ironically, it's fairly easy to ask someone to change music you don't like when you're in a restaurant or driving in a car with someone. However, it's difficult to get another person to change their negative "tune." This article brings up an important concept that we allow sound and music to affect us “passively.” If someone close to us in a restaurant was repeating one negative phrase after another we’d probably be inclined to move away from them. Yet, we allow ourselves to listen to repetitious negative messages in music and don’t think much of it.

Ironically, it’s fairly easy to ask someone to change music you don’t like when you’re in a restaurant or driving in a car with someone. However, it’s difficult to get another person to change their negative “tune.”

]]> Comment on About MusicMagic by Maryellen http://musicmagic.wordpress.com/about-musicmagic/#comment-3 Maryellen Fri, 18 Jul 2008 02:00:20 +0000 http://musicmagic.wordpress.com/?page_id=3#comment-3 I like to think about the songs that I genuinely identify with. For instance, if someone asked me to sum myself up in a song or sum up a part of my life with a song, what song would it be? What would your life theme song be? Generally speaking I don't like songs about being miserable because of lost love or ones that encourage feeling victimized because of the way someone else treated you. Why listen to Kelly Clarkson's "Because of You" or LeAnne Rhymes "How Do I Live?" if you could listen to Clarkson's "A Moment Like This" or something else that's uplifiting. I like to think about the songs that I genuinely identify with. For instance, if someone asked me to sum myself up in a song or sum up a part of my life with a song, what song would it be?

What would your life theme song be?

Generally speaking I don’t like songs about being miserable because of lost love or ones that encourage feeling victimized because of the way someone else treated you.

Why listen to Kelly Clarkson’s “Because of You” or LeAnne Rhymes “How Do I Live?” if you could listen to Clarkson’s “A Moment Like This” or something else that’s uplifiting.

]]> Comment on Benefits of Music Education – At Any Age!! by tomwest73 http://musicmagic.wordpress.com/2008/07/08/benefits-music-education/#comment-2 tomwest73 Wed, 09 Jul 2008 15:51:43 +0000 http://musicmagic.wordpress.com/?p=5#comment-2 This is an accurate list of positives about music education. I might add the following: Music is a form of <b>experiential learning</b> where the student learns concepts and then directly experiences them. This is a superior way to learn when compared to simple rote learning and memorization of facts that happens in other academic disciplines. Music teaches <b>emotional expression</b> which, in addition to the obvious spiritual and health benefits, aids in getting memories more deeply encoded into the brain. Music teaches the <b>entire person</b> by involving all areas of intelligence including mathematical, linguistic, spatial, interpersonal, and intrapersonal. I really like what you had to say here, and it is right up my alley. :-) Please visit my webpage at <a href="http://www.thomasjwestmusic.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.thomasjwestmusic.com</a> for articles, blogs, and materials intended to help music teachers and students learn the art of music even better. This is an accurate list of positives about music education. I might add the following:

Music is a form of experiential learning where the student learns concepts and then directly experiences them. This is a superior way to learn when compared to simple rote learning and memorization of facts that happens in other academic disciplines.

Music teaches emotional expression which, in addition to the obvious spiritual and health benefits, aids in getting memories more deeply encoded into the brain.

Music teaches the entire person by involving all areas of intelligence including mathematical, linguistic, spatial, interpersonal, and intrapersonal.

I really like what you had to say here, and it is right up my alley. :-)

Please visit my webpage at http://www.thomasjwestmusic.com for articles, blogs, and materials intended to help music teachers and students learn the art of music even better.

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