What does music do to the brain?

It provides a total brain workout. Research has shown that listening to music can reduce anxiety, blood pressure, and pain as well as improve sleep quality, mood, mental alertness, and memory.

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Keep Your Brain Young with Music

If you want to firm up your body, head to the gym. If you want to exercise your brain, listen to music. There are few things that stimulate the brain the way music does. If you want to keep your brain engaged throughout the aging process, listening to or playing music is a great tool. It provides a total brain workout. Research has shown that listening to music can reduce anxiety, blood pressure, and pain as well as improve sleep quality, mood, mental alertness, and memory. The Brain-Music Connection Experts are trying to understand how our brains can hear and play music. A stereo system puts out vibrations that travel through the air and somehow get inside the ear canal. These vibrations tickle the eardrum and are transmitted into an electrical signal that travels through the auditory nerve to the brain stem, where it is reassembled into something we perceive as music. Johns Hopkins researchers have had dozens of jazz performers and rappers improvise music while lying down inside an fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) machine to watch and see which areas of their brains light up. Music is structural, mathematical and architectural. It’s based on relationships between one note and the next. You may not be aware of it, but your brain has to do a lot of computing to make sense of it. Try It Learn an Instrument When 13 older adults took piano lessons, their attention, memory and problem-solving abilities improved, along with their moods and quality of life. You don’t have to become a pro, just take a few lessons. Everyday Brain Boosts from Music The power of music isn’t limited to interesting research. Try these methods of bringing more music—and brain benefits—into your life. Jump-start your creativity. Listen to what your kids or grandkids listen to, experts suggest. Often we continue to listen to the same songs and genre of music that we did during our teens and 20s, and we generally avoid hearing anything that’s not from that era. New music challenges the brain in a way that old music doesn’t. It might not feel pleasurable at first, but that unfamiliarity forces the brain to struggle to understand the new sound. Recall a memory from long ago. Reach for familiar music, especially if it stems from the same time period that you are trying to recall. Listening to the Beatles might bring you back to the first moment you laid eyes on your spouse, for instance. Listen to your body. Pay attention to how you react to different forms of music, and pick the kind that works for you. What helps one person concentrate might be distracting to someone else, and what helps one person unwind might make another person jumpy.

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What is a classic song?

A song that has aged well or defines the era it was made in.

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I would agree with the classifications put forth above, but there also seems to be an element of benign permeability that comes with the classic tag. By this I mean that classic songs permeate culture, but in doing so never seem to loose their charm or essential "classicness". I think of Tears For Fears' "Everybody Wants To Rule The World," a classic of synth pop. My friend and I heard this before a concert a few months back and noted how the melody, while extremely catchy and singable, never seems to tire or get old. It doesn't get stuck in your head, and no matter if you like the song or not, when "Everybody Wants To Rule The World" comes one, you have an instant sense of the genre, time and place it comes from. And when the song is over, it's over, the enjoyable moment has passed. Regardless of your feelings about Tears For Fears, I use this song as an example of the kind of non-annoying earworm-quality of classic songs. They are always in the background of musical consciousness, and help to form our collective music classification andc onception.

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