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.
Classical
Béla Bartók
Beethoven
Hector Berlioz
Alexander Borodin
Brahms
Claude Debussy
Dvorak
Niels W. Gade
Vagn Holmboe
C. F. E. Horneman
Friedrich Kuhlau
Mendelssohn
Mozart
Mussorgsky
Carl Nielsen
Sergei Prokofiev
Knudåge Riisager
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Schubert
Schumann
Shostakovich
Igor Stravinsky
Tchaikovsky
Carl Maria von Weber
C. E. F- Weyse
Jazz
Buddy DeFranco
Stan Getz
Benny Goodman
Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen (NHØP)
Oscar Peterson
George Shearing
Art Tatum
“Where words fail, music speaks.”
Hans Christian Andersen
“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“The only truth is music.”
Jack Kerouac
“Ah, music,” he said, wiping his eyes. “A magic beyond all we do here!”
J.K. Rowling
“Music is … A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy”
Ludwig van Beethoven
Music doesn’t lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.
Jimi Hendrix
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
Plato