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Music therapy effects and music treatment in ICU
Since there have been a few kind requests I thought I would blog a little more on some of the talks presented at Mozart and Science III – a conference on Music in Medicine and Therapy this year held in Krems, Austria. Here you can see my previous blog which gives more details about the conference itself and a summary of the first keynote speech given by Dr Julian Thayer. There were a multitude of interesting talks at the conference and I could not possible attend them all, so many apologies to anyone not mentioned. You can find all details about the speakers here. In this blog I will mention…
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How does musical background affect absolute pitch ability?
Article of the day: Vanzella, P & Schellenberg, E.G (2010) Absolute Pitch: Effetcs of timbre of note naming ability. PLoS One, 5 (11), e15449. (FREE TO ACCESS!) Today I was alerted to a new article published in PloS One on the subject of Absolute Pitch (AP). I have always been interested in this musical skill – mostly because it is something I don’t seem to possess despite having started my music lessons at a very young age. Not that this torments me on a daily basis you understand! – But I would like to know more about why some people have it and some don’t, and how possession of this ability…