Mozart's music and ancient instruments Analyzing the structure of two musical pieces attributed to Leopold Mozart, experts assumed the particularly complex phrasing that may have been composed by Wolfgang Amadeus child at a young age and later transcribed by his father since the child was not yet able to write music, but had already developed considerable skills and musical performances. This is a concert for piano the duration of four minutes and a one minute prelude (part of the collection of the Nannerl's books) composed around 1763-64, the musical phrasing very fast, which also contain errors of inexperience of the young Mozart. By shifting the focus to another field of research and particularly on old instruments, to be reported that in Germany had found a flute dating to about thirty five thousand years ago carved into a bone.. probably the oldest musical instrument radiocarbon analysis. e-mail:       info@salutary.eu Tel:   +39 338 1809310        Date:    Aug 03, 2009              n:   1034 Pythagoras and the desire to know The historical information concerning the philosopher Pythagoras are sometimes unclear or data full of mystery, but almost surely it must be right to the "mystic" born in Samos in about 570 BC the merit of having invented the term philosophy, which means love of wisdom or desire to know, as well as perhaps the first attempt to find a precise relationship between mathematics, music, geometry, and harmony of opposites between starting study would be the length of the strings music and relationships octave. Many of the health associations and hygiene practices both in the field of food, apparel, and about the habits of life of almost monastic type were tested own by Pythagoras to whom we owe the development of mathematical theorems, the study of polygons.. to remember then the tetraktys, the equilateral triangle formed by 10 points 1+2+3+4, the use of the square and the number at the base and explanation of almost all things. e-mail:       info@salutary.eu Tel:   +39 338 1809310        Date:    Jul 19, 2009                         n:   1026       Ancient music therapy One of the first theoretical musical philosopher that did researches with strict Aristotelian method on therapeutic potential of music (for example on sick from epilepsy) in the fourth century BC was Aristosseno of Taranto in Italy, son of a student of Socrates, and famous for a series of writings of a musical (about Pythagorean model) as the "Elements of harmony", the "Rhythmic elements" and "On listening music".. in which the author claims the need for sensitive perception of music, which requires special attention with vigilant memory to compare the present sounds with those of the past and of the future, in order to hear what happens and remember what happened. For the Pythagoreans, the music was object of investigation and a tool for education, because the sounds and the relevant harmony can be translated into numbers from which we get a law of the number (depending on the length of the vibrating string), in which the number is the "substance" of the harmony music. e-mail:       info@salutary.eu Tel:   +39 338 1809310        Date:    Jun 24, 2009                         n:   1006 The bats would be able to compare the sounds A study carried out to verify the ability of bats to detect a prey by flying at night through the echo sonar was noted that they are also able to communicate with other hunting companions as if they could talk, perhaps by comparing the sounds picked with those memorized that would have a different frequency depending on the shape of the vocal cords. Bats are mammals with front limbs phalanges elongated connected to the body with thin membranes that allow the flight, and emit short sounds bouncing on the walls of the local hunting permit guidance necessary to locate and capture prey, as well as receive the subtle differences in sounds that they emit. In others studies it was revealed that large mammals such as whales also to use the echo sonar, communicate with vocals, songs, snaps.. almost of the "dialects" depending on the species they belong to. e-mail:       info@salutary.eu Tel:   +39 338 1809310        Date:    Jun 06, 2009                         n:   990 Different perception of sounds In an experiment carried out by listening to the sound of a group of listeners ready to press a button once perceived this sound, the researchers noted that people weakest show of being ready and much faster than with the stronger, and scientists speculate that this may depend on an ancestral reflex dictated by when men could be prey to animals and had to be a very sensitive hearing to defend himself. The strongest individuals seem to have less perceptibility to changes in sound due to the motion and decrease the distance to listen, probably because of increased security that does not require a particular sensitivity to the difference of the most vulnerable who need a hearing able to analyze the type and direction of the sound with a mechanism very similar to what that normally happen with preyed animals in nature. e-mail:       info@salutary.eu Tel:   +39 338 1809310        Date:    Apr 29, 2009                         n:   958 Celebrations for the Händel composer Friederich Georg Häendel (Halle 1685 - London 1759) is considered one of the greatest composers of all time and on the anniversary of a distance than two hundred and fifty years after his death (April 14) are taking some exhibitions and performances in London to remember this artist, whose works have a strong religious connotation.. famous "The Messiah" reference masterpiece written in 1742 in one of the hardest periods of his troubled life, misunderstood by the English, semiparalyzed, struck in the intellectual faculties, and forced to do listen to Dublin his oratories collecting the residual energy of a physical hard tried (according to some suffered from lead poisoning in the wine). Untamed and practically blind, he continued to compose until his death which occurred on the day of Holy Saturday "in the hope of reaching my Sweet Lord and Savior on the day of Resurrection." e-mail:       info@salutary.eu Tel:   +39 338 1809310        Date:    Apr 04, 2009                         n:   942 Music salutary after a stroke The interruption of the influx of blood to the brain by a clot, an embolism due to a thrombus, a bleeding or other accidents can cause cardiovascular disorder or a reduction of the visual field, which in more severe cases require patients to see only a side of an object with a nearly halved vision, and this is usually caused by damage to areas of the brain used to control the view, but some studies have shown how we can improve vision due to listening to music. The researchers noted that subjects who listened to their favorite music could more easily recognize a particular shape or light in the visual impaired, probably for cause of the positive emotional provoked by music or thanks to a state of mind more relaxed and greater serenity favored by listening to nice music (.. other researches are under study in this field). e-mail:       info@salutary.eu Tel:   +39 338 1809310        Date:    Mar 27, 2009                         n:   935 Music therapy for the Alzheimer's For many years has been recognized the positive features of the music therapy to treat dementia and other diseases, also appear to sing in chorus in unison can be useful in cases of Alzheimer's, as was seen in forty subjects improved harmony of thought intoning a song (of Grace of religious type), with positive effects also in terms of communication to enhance clarity and to remember the words to accompany the song. There remains the problem to some to find a truly effective medicine to treat a disease that completely confuses patients and also those who must assist them, so this commitment is serious; while as regards the causes, it seems that can increase the risk of Alzheimer the excessive concentration of aluminum in the water to drink, while the silica decreases for the opposite effect. e-mail:       info@salutary.eu Tel:   +39 338 1809310        Date:    Mar 05, 2009                         n:   917 Simple songs and melodies of Christmas One of the most famous Christmas carols in the world "Stille Nacth" turns 190 years having been composed in 1818 by Franz Xaver Gruber (on the previous verses by Joseph Mohr) and performed in a small chapel in the village of Obendorf in Austria by the faithful with the accompanying only of one guitar, a harmonious song that is known all over the globe and is characterized by a simple melody (G, A, G, E - G, A, G, E ..). Another nice popular Christmas carol "You come down from the stars" was composed by St. Alfonso de' Liguori [Marianella (Na) 1696 - Pagani (Sa) 1787], a lawyer who left the profession to preach and help the poorest classes, was elected bishop in 1762 but later resigned this position; will also occupied of ascetic themes with the "Theologia moralis" work (developing the thought of the Busembaum), a doctrine which was then widely adopted, very well known also his "Eternal maxims - Glories of Mary" ..was canonized in 1839. e-mail:       info@salutary.eu Tel:   +39 338 1809310        Date:    Dec 22, 2008                         n:   858 Classical music on vines Continue the testing on the use of the music in agriculture and would appear from the yield of some vines that is particularly suitable the music of Mozart for his characteristic rhythm, the frequency constant of vibration and the structure that recalls a mathematical patterns described (?) by Fibonacci. The relationship between music and numbers was found in ancient from the Pythagoras philosopher and on the other hand the distance of notes is calculated on precise mathematical relationships, but is mainly due to the Franciscan Marin Mersenne (1588 - 1648) the merit of having describe in great detail in the work "Universal harmony" the consonances and dissonances in the composition and singing, the musical instruments with details on the tension of the strings or must be built the organ pipes.. with interlacings between physics, mathematics and astronomy really surprising and even the "Well-tempered harpsichord" of J.S. Bach seems to be based on these studies. e-mail:       info@salutary.eu Tel:   +39 338 1809310        Date:    Dec 04, 2008                         n:   843 Music therapy room and antistress For reduce the stress levels in individuals agitated or whose mind is gripping from concerns is possible to exploit the properties of relaxing some specific songs in combination with exposure to soft colored lights and special images, smells and tastes pleasing.. and a number of these antistress "tricks" were taken to an experimental room to relax effect that gives the person a feeling of protection and security from external dangers. More researches of the same type were made in the past in open environments of naturalistic type, diffusing for example classical music pathways in flower beds, water courses, lawns and lush plants, but also in normal agricultural practices such as the grape harvesting, the sowing and the crop some argue that it is possible to improve product quality and decrease the fatigue of working through songs that exploit the principles of music therapy. e-mail:       info@salutary.eu Tel:   +39 338 1809310        Date:    Oct 22, 2008                         n:   807 Digital sound from ancient instruments The developing technology in the computer field with a drop in the price of data storage media that allow to store large amounts of bytes (for example, ten to twelfth bytes - trillion bytes or terabytes) in the hard disks of the latest generation makes possible the digital playback faithful to ancient instruments with all their exquisite tonal and harmonic nuances without risking to damage the delicate mechanical weakened by the passage of time or that do not hold the tuning during the performance of a song. In this way is possible can keep intact the charm of the instruments safeguarding the characteristic sound, however, regarding the preservation of hearing once digitized songs and "downloaded" in the new thin digital players will be keeping a particularly low volume and appreciate with every sense the tone and harmonics healthy that only certain sounds can offer. e-mail:       info@salutary.eu Tel:   +39 338 1809310        Date:    Sep 17, 2008                         n:   777 The secrets of Stradivari The secret of the unmistakable Stradivarius sound of the famous violins could be for some Swedish investigators in the wood gained from firs and maple trees of the Valley of Fiemme in Trentino in a period that goes from the end of the '600 until the 1730 characterized from temperatures many cold, that have produced the rings of increase in the trees near and uniforms. Naturally also the working and the remarkable manual ability of Stradivarius gave to the woods of violin one particular structure with uniform carvings and thicknesses; Paganini said with typically musical sensibility that he has selected only the trees where sang the nightingale [19/04/2006]. - Lately other different analyses on the violins made changing medical programmes which calculate the density of the lungs would have changes in the growth of grain of the wood from those older than those relatively more recent, resulting in this way special vibrations that characterize the sound. e-mail:       info@salutary.eu Tel:   +39 338 1809310        Date:    Jul 03, 2008                         n:   145 Environments silenced with metamaterials For many years performing experiments to find the key to silence and now some scientists thanks to the so-called "composite metamaterials" (with repetitions of many segments) seems to have developed a system for conveying the sound waves around the object for mute, so to hide it in some way acoustically as happens in a figuratively model to a flow of water that surrounds an object. The technology used to achieve these artificial materials exploits mathematical calculations on designs already widely tested and now further improved, in practice it is composed of countless layers of microscopic cylinders able to divert the sound waves. In theory these systems of different thickness depending on the type of waves from "mute" should be relatively easy implementation and use for example to silence environments to dedicate for musical purposes or for domestic local or other common uses of utility. e-mail:       info@salutary.eu Tel:   +39 338 1809310        Date:    Jun 16, 2008                         n:   710 Musical brain Some studies characterized various years ago in the temporal lobes the part of the brain used after the elaboration of the musical "language", but now through the scanner to magnetic resonance it seems that some zones of the prefrontal cortex are interested, at least as far as the artistic creativity and the improvisation (with musicians particularly trained). The frontal areas of the brain would have in a generalized manner to be used to the creativity, the enthusiasm and the imagination; therefore, also for music it is worth the same criterion of appraisal of the language or the reading and seems that can be also a connection between the dyslexia and the deafness to some tonality (with possibility of cures in future thanks to the acquaintance of the mechanisms that regulate the cerebral functions). To signal with a different point of view that the musical creativity could be the much most complex one than how much can be "radiographed" with a machine, from the moment that as an example in the dream is possible to devise original musical pieces complete of harmonization of unexpected complexity. e-mail:       info@salutary.eu Tel:   +39 338 1809310        Date:    Mar 12, 2008                         n:   638 The music defeats the doping In this world that turns to the contrary happens quite that the music is accused of having a dopant effect on the athletic performances, while to time are find some "champion" positive to the drugs or anabolic substances of some type that of sure falsify every competitions (also those to not properly to sport character), without to forget that exist simple "integrators" like branching amino-acids, creatine, hexaphosphine.. that in practical they provoke effects of anabolic type in the organism and the performances. To notice instead, than a type of classic or naturalistic music could be useful to defeat the doping through the musicotherapy approaching the subjects to a healthier conception of the sportive practical, but this is much difficult in one world that proposes to the public athletes with to time suspects enormous musculature and that preprefers the profit also in the "doping" musical field. e-mail:       info@salutary.eu Tel:   +39 338 1809310        Date:    Nov 03, 2007                         n:   542 To sing in order to alleviate the suffering For centuries peasants, masons, laundresses.. accompanied the hard job singing simple melodies in order to alleviate the hard work and the suffering that the more indigent classes were forced to endure, using unconsciously a species of natural musicotherapy, but it has been above all with the black Americans slaves in the cotton plantations that have happened the development in "modern" key of the popular song, considering also the fundamental contribution of the music of the spirit (soul) with which the faithful of color sang in the religious choruses (style that also has been imitated for low commercial scopes). To notice that is in the monasteries that in the cult places has used the song like shape of particularly intense prayer; therefore the reason is comprehensible for which as an example still today the monks singing of the songs in order to try to resist to the blows taken from the distorted logic of the power (without to react to the provocations). e-mail:       info@salutary.eu Tel:   +39 338 1809310        Date:    Sep 29, 2007                         n:   514 Music, rhythms and calculations Many recognize a relationship between music and mathematics from the moment that the distance between the notes is calculated on the increasing relationships among number of vibrations, and probably also the rhythm is based on the arithmetical calculation, without to consider the "likeness" with the philosophy (according with Schopenhauer) and consequently with its higher expression, the religion (the Christians has bound together music to the sacred texts for being able to hand on them to the eternity and the same names of notes hides a verse of the Gospel). Perhaps the first music that we learn to perceive is the cardiac heartbeat in 4/4, that it is also the rhythm that distinguish the greater part of the compositions and also a trained ear does not notice immediately an unusual passage as an example from 4/4 to 3/4 (virtuosi experimentations..) so is the habit to the unconscious calculation; but in some countries the relationships change according to the culture ending in order to ideally representing the soul of the populations. e-mail:       info@salutary.eu Tel:   +39 338 1809310        Date:    Mar 17, 2007                         n:   368 Oriental music therapeutic Is probably the China the first country that have adopted the principles of the musicotherapy, from the moment that for the Chinese culture the music succeeds to realize one particular harmony between the energies of the Universe and those of the man, connecting the heart, the feelings and the emotions to the heartbeat of the cosmos. The oriental Chinese music based on the only five notes of the pentatonic scale, it was used for the well-being and to therapeutic scope thanks to apposite instruments realizes with materials and shapes that had to be adapted to the type of pathology or altered state of conscience to cure. To notice but, that some support as is "music" a term of Egyptian origin that derive from "water" principle of all the things (..and the cures). e-mail:       info@salutary.eu Tel:   +39 338 1809310        Date:    Feb 19, 2007                         n:   346 A vibrating memory of Arthur Toscanini The famous director of orchestra was born to Parma in 1867, in youth studied the violoncello to the Conservatory of the born city, and in 1886 during one tour to Rio de Janeiro had the occasion of being able to demonstrate his dowries of precision and dragging rigor replacing who had to direct in that moment in the Aida the musicians. Although Toscanini declared to follow scrupulously the score (succeeding also to correct eventual errors), his fan and characteristic direction distinguished for being particularly concise, fast and vibrating. He ennobled with its interpretations the works of Joseph Verdi, but was forced to emigrate in America in order to opposite to the fascism; but then he returned in Italy for to direct to the reconstructed Scala after the bombardment being given the public celebrates executions. Now for the 50 years from the death happened to New York in 1957 are celebrated with numerous initiatives. e-mail:       info@salutary.eu Tel:   +39 338 1809310        Date:    Jan 17, 2007                         n:   324 Healthy music lowering the volume While we have new confirmations on the positive effect of music in the intellectual development of the children, especially if is also learned to play one musical instrument; from other researches it would turn out that the young people that listen MP3 to high volume, could unconsciously damage their eardrums, from the moment that are enough 15 minutes of listen to 105 decimeucci in order to provoke lesions to the eardrums. The rule that suggests in England the Deafness Research institute for a secure listening without problems would be that one of 60 x 60; practically listening to a volume inferior to 60% that maximum and in order not more than 60 consecutive minutes. Considering the type of music of insufficient quality.. that the young people listen to highest volume, perhaps it would be better to listen classical or ambient music to low volume for long periods of time (always trying of not to disturb who does not appreciate it). e-mail:       info@salutary.eu Tel:   +39 338 1809310        Date:    Nov 20, 2006                         n:   286 Music and sounds to support of some pathologies Thanks to its particular type of communication various from every type of language, the music could be of comfort for the ills of Alzheimer that sometimes live in a altered temporal space and they more do not succeed to comprise the messages that arrive from the ambience. To notice moreover that the University of Bologna has experiment near Budrio an electronic apparatus equipped of sensors that communicate the position of the body through acoustic stereo signals to the patients with problems of equilibrium (useful after a period of training). It would seem, at last, that listening daily the music can give relief in the cases of articular pains (and give well-being in general). e-mail:       info@salutary.eu Tel:   +39 338 1809310        Date:    Jun 04, 2006                         n:   185 Melodious animals Seems from some researches that the animals comprise the musical melodies, and in particular the birds succeed to distinguish the variations of the music in the songs. Of the rest many know that reproducing the sonorous of various recordings of the song of exemplary birds that are limited to prattle, after a period of time learn little to sing and with a long period of training they are exhibited with personal melodies. e-mail:       info@salutary.eu Tel:   +39 338 1809310        Date:    Apr 28, 2006                         n:   153 The Saints here not sings As every year from the Italy little city of Sanremo goes in air the songs manifestation that in practical it takes the name of the Saint that evangelized these splendid Liguria region lands; in truth it was be a matter of Romolo bishop, but pronounced in the local strait dialect it has been contracted in Remo. The more serious thing, however, is that an other "sept" often sends its illustrious members to exhibit, than even are not of the singers, in compensation the world of the sport sounds you before with an "ogre" of the boxing, then with a "big beast" of the Wrestling (the sport activity with more doping and feint in absolute). To call with the name of a Saint this kind of show is inopportune, even if music and the song have without doubt evangelism qualities with the training of the soul, but a lot depends on who directs the "chorus" and with which motivations. - [26/10/09 ..The sept has been condamned for fraud in France]. e-mail:       info@salutary.eu Tel:   +39 338 1809310        Date:    Mar 03, 2006                         n:   110 Also the fishes love Mozart A service of the Italian scientific news television have shown an experiment carried out in Greece on fish breeds in a bathtub and although it's famous that the fish are deaf, is known that they perfectly perceive the vibrations provoked from the music, with remarkable results. It seems that the fishes listening Mozart produce a greater amount of Omega 3-6 and that also the skin turns out more polishes, thanks to the effect of the musical relaxation. Sin that seen the truly extraordinary effects of the his music, the brilliant composer is died nearly in misery, buried in a common grave and to his funeral was only a dog (nobody in those times had comprised the harmony and the capacity of the musical innovations of Wolfgang Amadeus.. or his workshop). e-mail:       info@salutary.eu Tel:   +39 338 1809310        Date:    Jan 17, 2006                         n:   77 Stimulating music The music according to a study carried out near the University of Pavia increases the frequency of the respiration, the cardiac heartbeat and the arterial pressure following in practical the musical rhythm. To notice that the hush turns out much favorable to the relaxation and reduces the tension in greater measure of the sweet and slow music. The effects benefits of the musicotherapy have been by now wide confirmed, as an example it can be useful since from the begins of the life rendering less painful the suffering and stabilizing the increase in the children who are born under weight. Thanks to the positive effect on the production of the melatonin and the adrenalin music improves the sleep, the humor and can be useful as helping in the recovery from degenerate diseases of the neurovascolar system (for the investigators of the University of Tokyo, the compositions of Mozart would have to be most effective). e-mail:       info@salutary.eu Tel:   +39 338 1809310        Date:    Dec 18, 2005                         n:   62 Music also in agriculture After the beneficial use in the hospitals, the music is utilized also in the animals breeding and in experimentation on the plants; over the vines seems to go away the parasites. e-mail:       info@salutary.eu Tel:   +39 338 1809310        Date:    Sep 26, 2005                         n:   17   ...     < * The author doesn't assume some kind of responsibility for the bad use of the articles councils (all rights are reserved)