The Magic of Music

This Miscellany No. 8 details that magical moment we have when music causes us to get chills. The technical term for this is frisson, but we call them goosebumps. The episode is titled Gäsehaut because I have another German story about this and this is their term for frisson.

Some argue that the value of music is in the doing of music. This has been called musicing and it is rooted in a philosophy called Praxialism. Imaging that, doing music is fun.

Music engages us in three domains, which are cognition, psychomotor, and affective. It is the only subject that easily allows us to be in all three at the same time.

Show Notes

Dr. Meredith Arksey

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yUa8-MEHwc

Good explanation about strings using sympathetic vibrations to improve intonation

Mechanical Metronomes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suQbK7AA5XI

Watch these mechanical metronomes synch with one another

Practical Engineering

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXTSnZgrfxM

Explains the Tacoma Narrows Bridge

Physics Girl

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oc27GxSD_bI

Demonstrates and discusses how the voice can break glass

Viola D’Amore Photo

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=viol+demore&atb=v241-1&iax=images&ia=images&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fvancikviolin.com%2Fwp-content%2Fgallery%2Fviola-damore%2FIMG_5166.JPG

Viola D’Amore Introduction by Rachel Barton Pine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1Qmmx7zoO8

Go to 18:00 mark to hear a performance on the instrument

Tuning the Hand with Physics and Feeling by Matthew H. Spieker

Spieker, M. H. (2022) Tuning the Hand with Physics and Feeling. American String Teacher. 72(1), 33-36.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00031313211065511?icid=int.sj-abstract.citing-articles.1

Harmony can change your disposition and that is magical.

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Part of Pentatonix’s YouTube video of Amazing Grace, My Chains are Gone is used in this miscellany. Listen to the entire video, it is mind blowing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Obp-9BEZe1c

Rhythm will change a simple succession of notes into a melody. This is magical.

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Queen, We Will Rock You

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tJYN-eG1zk

Melody is memorable and this is partly why it is magical.

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Bobby McFerrin, Don’t Worry, Be Happy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-diB65scQU

• This little gem has Robin Williams in it as well.

Fifty Nifty

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uv5VhuUfwC4

Clip from the Sundance Film Festival featuring Henry and a talk from Dr. Oliver Sacks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HLEr-zP3fc

This podcast details how the beat is magical in that it makes you move.

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Henri Mancini’s Baby Elephant Walk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RPQKV6ijBY

Duke Ellington’s band playing, It Don’t Mean a Thing if it Ain’t Got That Swing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDQpZT3GhDg

This is the inaugural podcast of the Magic of Music. I introduce who I am, how I came up with the podcast name, and why I am doing this project.

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