alouette! gentille, alouette! alouette, je te plu me rai!: my sources

Friday, November 09, 2007

my sources

http://hs.riverdale.k12.or.us/~dthomso/exhib_03/jasonc/The_Affect_of_Music_on_the_Human_Brain.html
This one is really cool because it is basically my paper, so this is the one that I will be getting most of my information from. I will also be using some of this articles sources as well. (I think this was luck on my part by finding this...im really glad I did because I can use this as a format for my paper, and I can find my sources much easier)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1258168
This one helps because it talks about how certain songs trigger memories and why this happens (for as much as we know). This one does not have citations because it was an interview, so I will be taking notes on this and using those notes as points in my paper. Those notes will not be the only points I use, some of them will be used as clarifying information for some other point I made.
http://media.www.iowastatedaily.com/media/storage/paper818/news/1999/09/30/UndefinedSection/Can-Music.Make.You.Smarter-1077044.shtml
This one I find particularly interesting because it starts out with the dorm room example. That just brought me in the article right away. Most people say that it's only classical music that makes the brain increase, but here he is stating that maybe it is any type of music that can make you smarter.

http://clearlyexplained.com/news/nature/2006/jun/1N2806_06.html
This one states that there is more grey matter in the right hemisphere of the brain and that causes more neuroactivity which in turn makes you smarter.

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what is music?

Music is a science. It is exact, specific; and it demands exact acoustics. A conductor's full score is a chart, a graph which indicates frequencies,intensities, volume changes, melody and harmony all at once and withthe most exact control of time.
Music is mathematical. It is rhythmically based on the subdivisions of time into fractions which must be done instantaneously, not worked out onpaper.
Music is a foreign language. Most of the terms are in Italian, German or French; and the notation is certainly not English - but a highly developedkind of shorthand that uses symbols to represent ideas. The semantics ofmusic is the most complete and universal language.
Music is history. Music usually reflects the environment and times of itscreation, often event the country and/or racial feeling.Music is physical education. It requires fantastic coordination offingers, hands, arms, lip, cheek and facial muscles, in addition toextraordinary control of the diaphragmatic, back, stomach, and chestmuscles, which respond instantly to the sound the ear hears and the mindinterprets.
Music is all these things, but most of all, music is art. It allows ahuman being to take all these dry, technically boring (but difficult)techniques and use them to create emotion. That is one thing sciencecannot duplicate; humanism, feeling, emotion, call it what you will.
THAT IS WHY WE TEACH MUSIC!
Not because we expect our students to major in music
Not because we expect them to play or sing all their life
Not so they can relax
Not so they can have fun
BUT - so they will be human
so they will recognize beauty
so they will be sensitive
so they will be closer to an infinite beyond this world
so they will have something to cling to
so they will have more love, more compassion, more gentleness, more good...in short, more life.
Of what value will it be to make a prosperous living unless you know how tolive?
THAT IS WHY WE TEACH MUSIC!

questions to ponder

If your whole body were a hot air balloon, would you stop eating spicy food?
What would you wear for camouflage if you were hiding in a gingerbread house?
Why does the color blue mean raspberry-flavored?
Your superpower is that you smell like dandelions whenever someone lies. How will you maintain your secret identity?
what possible band names could you come up with for your group that features a washboard and a styrofoam tuba.
You can punch a hole in an apple using a straw. How do you think that makes your milkshake feel?
Paper or briefs?
How is an ankle unlike a consequence?
Chicken monkey shoes?
what kind of spells can you cast with magic markers?
Why do they call it an asteroid when it's outside the hemisphere, but call it a hemorrhiod when it's in your butt?
Do the Alphabet song and Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star have the same tune?
Why did you just try singing the two songs?
If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons?
If corn oil is made from corn, and vegetable oil is made from vegetables, what is baby oil made from?
If Wile E. Coyote had enough money to buy all that ACME crap, why didn't he just buy dinner?
Why does Goofy stand erect while Pluto remains on all fours? They're both dogs!
If the professor on Gilligan's Island can make a radio out of a coconut, why can't he fix a hole in a boat?
Can you cry under water?
Can a hearse carrying a corpse drive in the carpool lane ?
If Jimmy cracks corn and no one cares, why is there a stupid song about him?
did you ever notice that when you blow in a dog's face, he gets mad at you, but when you take him for a car ride, he sticks his head out of the window?
Why do toasters always have a setting that burns the toast to a horrible crisp, which no decent human being would eat?
Why is "bra" singular and "panties" plural?
Why do doctors leave the room while you change? They're going to see you naked, anyway.
Why do people pay to go up tall buildings and then put money in binoculars to look at things on the ground?
Why are you IN a movie, but you're ON TV?
If a deaf person has to go to court, is it still called a hearing?
Why is it that people say they "slept like a baby" when babies wake up like every two hours?
How is it that we put man on the moon before we figured out it would be a good idea to put wheels on luggage?
What disease did cured ham actually have?
Why does a round pizza come in a square box?
Once you're in heaven, do you get stuck wearing the clothes you were buried in for eternity?
How important does a person have to be before they are considered assasssinated instead of just murdered?

alouette! gentille, alouette! alouette, je te plu me rai!

Friday, November 09, 2007

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