by Vincent Miele | Mar 9, 2014 | Learn Music Like a Language |
Ever find yourself humming a song, or hearing a song in your head? Sometimes we find ourselves singing the same song over and over all day long, even if we can't stand the song! The fact is, music is just a part of us. We are exposed to music from the day we are...
by Vincent Miele | Apr 19, 2010 | Learn Music Like a Language |
Are musicians born or made? “Karl, you may become anything you want in this world, but a musician you will never be”. This statement was made by by Karl Wagner’s piano teacher. Beethoven found his first music lessons “irksome”. In fact, he oftentimes cried over...
by Chris Salter | Apr 19, 2010 | Learn Music Like a Language |
Language is a way to share information in a way that many people can understand. Therefore, it only stands to reason that music is a language. That is, written music is a language; the actual sounds of the music are purely artistic and abstract. (Composers...
by Vincent Miele | Apr 17, 2010 | Learn Music Like a Language |
Some ideas and evidence of deep links between the two. Some of the attributes of music are particularly memorable and can be used to assist learning. Music and language are both important in helping humans form large social groups, and one can argue that they...
by Vincent Miele | Apr 17, 2010 | Learn Music Like a Language |
Music and Lyrics: How the brain splits songs From the fMRI scans the team worked out that one particular part of the brain - the superior temporal sulcus - was responding to the songs. In the middle of the STS, the lyrics and tune were being processed as a single...
by Vincent Miele | Apr 17, 2010 | Learn Music Like a Language, Music In School |
Music (and Math) as Language A great thought provoking quote: "One beauty of music is that it presents our ears with a perfect symbiosis of language and mathematics. It is math that performs like language, in the same way that light behaves as both particle and...
