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• Scary Music: Don’t close your eyes!
• The whole point is to write something. Right?
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Music & the Brain

• Basic Neuromusicology ….and just another reason why I love it: “The first suffered a tumor and seizure, losing her ability to speak… but she could still sing. “When she sang,” Brust says, “she sang, not perfectly, but almost perfectly, the correct words
• Memory: Music Triumphs Over Jokes “I heard a great joke today, but now I can’t remember what it was.”
• The Brain's Music Helps Identify Issues Aural differences between healthy brain and dysfunctional brains, such as those afflicted with schizophrenia and dementia, may now be detectable through listening to the rhythms, cadences, and ‘warbling’ a brain emits during scans.

Music Theory & Composition

• Music and the Brain (or, why I want to study exactly this.) A great, if brief summary of Daniel Levitin and his recently published book “This Is Your Brain on Music”. If the article fascinates you, I’d encourage you to read the book. He’s a good author and it’s a fascinating read.

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… and just another's quest to understand it all