Music is Universal

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Music is important. On this site, you will find musical pages with composers and musicians, which I particularly like. Here you can see and hear performances by superior artists of the best music composed by the greatest composers of all time.

Music can be enjoyed by all – irrespective of language, culture, religion, age, gender, and political views. Music can unify all people – it is truly universal.

Playing and listening to music involves using the whole brain. Music is intrinsic to all cultures and has surprising benefits not only for learning a language, improving memory, and focusing attention but also for physical coordination and development.

Specific Beneficial Effects

• Music can help reduce both the sensation and distress of pain.
• Relaxing music can help reduce elevated blood pressure and keep it low.
• Slow music has a calming effect: it decreases significantly the heart and breathing rates.
• Music can help migraine and chronic headaches by reducing the intensity, frequency, and duration of the headaches.
• Music can boost the immune function by creating a positive and profound emotional experience, which increases the secretion of immune-boosting hormones and decreases levels of the stress-related hormone cortisol.
• Music during childbirth can decrease post-natal anxiety, depression, and pain, and increase satisfaction with childbirth.
• Music therapy in an early stage of tinnitus can prevent it from becoming chronic.
• Music by Mozart (Sonata for Two Pianos in D major – K 448) has been demonstrated to reduce seizure recurrence in childhood epilepsy.
• In stroke listening to music promotes behavioral recovery by inducing fine-grained neuroanatomical changes in the recovering brain.