New study shows that singing and attending classical music concerts physically reduces stress

Musicans

Feeling stressed? A recent study shows that a trip to the symphony might be just what you need! The Royal College of Music’s Center of Performance Science has proven that classical music physically reduces stress. To anyone who has set time aside to indulge in classical music, this makes perfect sense. But this is the first time this […]

See How Your Music Lessons Made You Smarter

Most people know that music education has many positive benefits, but we rarely see the facts to back these claims up. These 10 studies prove that music education does have a noticeable effect on children. Music lessons open up our mind to think in different ways. The concept of a major chord sounding ”happy” and a […]

New Study Shows Acheiving Perfect Pitch Now Possible

Perfect Pitch

Oh the ever so elusive perfect pitch. I remember one of my first encounters with someone with perfect pitch. I was at band camp (Band camp is awesome. Don’t knock it till you try it) and one of my fellow campers claimed to have perfect pitch. To prove he wasn’t full of it, we tried to test […]

The Science Of Music Therapy Is Making A Difference

Helen Odell-Miller

We rarely think about the music floating through the radio when we’re driving home from work. It is almost background noise to dull the frustrations of gridlock traffic. It drifts through our docile supermarket isles, and it blares though the speakers at the public pool. More often than not, we are not paying attention to […]

U of T grad bringing ragtime and his piano to Bay and Front

  Lets think about a dream job. Set your own hours. Work outside. Do what you love. Make people stop and smile dozens of times a day. Get paid in cash. Work anywhere in the world. Ladies and Gents, if that appeals to you… give busking a shot! For many young people (and old) jobs […]

Listening to ‘extreme’ music makes you calmer, not angrier, according to study

This article talks about some interesting points. However, the small and biased sample size take away from some of the credibility away from this study. I would think that anyone’s preferred genre of music would aid in calming and relaxing someone. Music’s purpose is to make us feel something. Its a communication device with the […]

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