When I was an English teacher, I always had classical music playing in the background. If I forgot to turn it on, my students would always ask me to put on the pretty music. It really helped to calm them and they always performed better when it was on. My dog enjoys it, too.
Great information...I was listening to classical music almost every night, until my music player broke down. I grew up with music in our home. My mother played the piano and sang. My father sang, too. I loved to sing and think that I used to know 2000 songs. I even wound up writing 25 songs words and music; and got copyrights on 15 of them. However, I am not a sales person or promoter...and just enjoyed working with a song arranger and writing them. Did you know that plants respond to music too? They like classical, but react negatively to loud discordant music.
The vast majority of modern rock music in an insult to call it music, Its just loud and painful with almost zero redeeming quality and the repetition of the first few measures over and over again is evidence of the lack of intellectual creativity of the artist.
Thank you Vigilant Fox. I have an 11 year old son and he plays the violin and the saxophone. Chose them himself, no prodding. My last child to rear being almost 60. I knew music was healing but had no idea just how beneficial. Love your posts here btw. This type of content, as the world is on fire, is a welcome respite in my opinion. May God bless you and yours.
As a musician, I can attest to the anxiety- relieving properties of classical music. As a grad student in music education, I had a professor who gave us a list of 20th century music, 21 hours total that we were required to know. I took him seriously and got all of them from a library and listened faithfully for 3 weeks for an hour and a half each day. I did not do any kind of work or movement while listening as I thought I would be distracted from truly listening for motifs, harmonies, sections. In that time period I have never been so calm and peaceful. It’s a lesson we should all heed.
What a great and inspiring article - I am 86 years old and Though knew everything - this piece of writing is wonderful reading for old folks and put me back in my place
I’m so happy to see this article! As a music educator and band director, I have been trying to educate parents and students about this for many years. Music is truly amazing!
Yes. It would be nice to have something uplifting or slightly educational but interesting, such as this piece, every once in a while to offset the challenges we face. Thank you!
Thanks so much for something completely different (in a good way)❣️😀and thanks for the examples of the best songs to listen to 🎻
I am thrilled to hear you enjoyed this piece, Carol!
I had a lot of fun writing it and am hoping to do more like it.
It works cuz I did that for my son 30 plus years ago and he graduated national honors society and he got a full scholarship for academics
When I was an English teacher, I always had classical music playing in the background. If I forgot to turn it on, my students would always ask me to put on the pretty music. It really helped to calm them and they always performed better when it was on. My dog enjoys it, too.
Great information...I was listening to classical music almost every night, until my music player broke down. I grew up with music in our home. My mother played the piano and sang. My father sang, too. I loved to sing and think that I used to know 2000 songs. I even wound up writing 25 songs words and music; and got copyrights on 15 of them. However, I am not a sales person or promoter...and just enjoyed working with a song arranger and writing them. Did you know that plants respond to music too? They like classical, but react negatively to loud discordant music.
The vast majority of modern rock music in an insult to call it music, Its just loud and painful with almost zero redeeming quality and the repetition of the first few measures over and over again is evidence of the lack of intellectual creativity of the artist.
There’s an old picture of Mozart Chopin Beethoven and others and it said the original rock stars and it’s true
Thank you Vigilant Fox. I have an 11 year old son and he plays the violin and the saxophone. Chose them himself, no prodding. My last child to rear being almost 60. I knew music was healing but had no idea just how beneficial. Love your posts here btw. This type of content, as the world is on fire, is a welcome respite in my opinion. May God bless you and yours.
How right you are, Vigilant! The very first piece is one I have bookmarked individually as a favorite musical selection. Thank you for this article.
As a musician, I can attest to the anxiety- relieving properties of classical music. As a grad student in music education, I had a professor who gave us a list of 20th century music, 21 hours total that we were required to know. I took him seriously and got all of them from a library and listened faithfully for 3 weeks for an hour and a half each day. I did not do any kind of work or movement while listening as I thought I would be distracted from truly listening for motifs, harmonies, sections. In that time period I have never been so calm and peaceful. It’s a lesson we should all heed.
What a great and inspiring article - I am 86 years old and Though knew everything - this piece of writing is wonderful reading for old folks and put me back in my place
Thank you very much for this. I have always wanted a greta classical Spotify playlist.
Great article.
I’m so happy to see this article! As a music educator and band director, I have been trying to educate parents and students about this for many years. Music is truly amazing!
It's been a long time since I listened to classical music. I used to love to listen to soundtrack scores. I have to get back to these.
Job well done, thanks Vigilant Fox.
Yes. It would be nice to have something uplifting or slightly educational but interesting, such as this piece, every once in a while to offset the challenges we face. Thank you!
Thanks for reminding me that there's ("free") music online available to me. I'll work on mixing that in with my audiobooks❣️
Listening to classical music is very much like regular, serious Bible study. It enhances brain function seriously.
My father felt exactly the same way as he did both on a daily basis.
Good classical music is a ray of healing hope in a self-destroying society.