Music’s Impact on Development: from Beginning to End
Laura Halcom
DEP 2004 01C
Patton
28 October 2015
Abstract
Music has been known to affect people throughout their life. Whether it be instrumental or lyrical, both listening to and making music can have profound impacts on development. Music helps infants and children in manners of comfort and learning. As adolescence, music is a key for developing identity and emotional stability. Even as adults, music continues to guide psychological development through relationships. As people grow old, music proves to be key in stimulating memory for those with dementia. Finally, music provides comfort in the grief of death.
Introduction
Music is a force of energy that has existed for …show more content…
Music is energy. Music is the vibrations in air. For Brian Greene, a physicist at Columbia University, sound is the actual wave or ripple of vibrating air, and the nature and details of the vibration is what allows for a musical note. There are two main types of music: instrumental and lyrical. Instrumental music is where the music is made with only instruments, no singing voices or lyrics. There are several kinds of instrumental music, such as piano, percussion, string, brass, woodwinds, and all of the above, which becomes an orchestra. Lyrical music is self-explanatory. It is music with lyrics. Lyrics are usually poetry or some sort of verse. The words bring a message that allows the movement of the instrumental sounds to become more …show more content…
In Elderhood, many suffer from dementia, or Alzheimer’s disease. Recent studies have shown that music has a tremendous impact on geriatrics. In the emotionally inspiring documentary, Alive Inside, shows the effect of listening to music for people living with Alzheimer’s disease. Bringing music into nursing homes by using headphones and individually tailored playlists with music from the senior’s prime times in their life can help them become stimulated. We can see how a person with no light in their eyes, nothing but fear and confusion, can suddenly come back. The familiar music seems to bring them back to life because the songs brings back memories associated with that music that are stored in a different part of the brain. People who have hardly moved in years begin to tap their toes and bob their head and clap their hands and smile. The music is bring families back together and reuniting old with young in ways that stimulate each of their own personal growth. When asked what the music does to him, a man suffering from Alzheimer’s passionately said that it gives him a good feeling of love. Music has an amazing ability to reawaken our souls and uncover the deepest parts of our humanity (Rossato-Bennett, 2014). Music also provides comfort in the grief of
Laura Halcom
DEP 2004 01C
Patton
28 October 2015
Abstract
Music has been known to affect people throughout their life. Whether it be instrumental or lyrical, both listening to and making music can have profound impacts on development. Music helps infants and children in manners of comfort and learning. As adolescence, music is a key for developing identity and emotional stability. Even as adults, music continues to guide psychological development through relationships. As people grow old, music proves to be key in stimulating memory for those with dementia. Finally, music provides comfort in the grief of death.
Introduction
Music is a force of energy that has existed for …show more content…
Music is energy. Music is the vibrations in air. For Brian Greene, a physicist at Columbia University, sound is the actual wave or ripple of vibrating air, and the nature and details of the vibration is what allows for a musical note. There are two main types of music: instrumental and lyrical. Instrumental music is where the music is made with only instruments, no singing voices or lyrics. There are several kinds of instrumental music, such as piano, percussion, string, brass, woodwinds, and all of the above, which becomes an orchestra. Lyrical music is self-explanatory. It is music with lyrics. Lyrics are usually poetry or some sort of verse. The words bring a message that allows the movement of the instrumental sounds to become more …show more content…
In Elderhood, many suffer from dementia, or Alzheimer’s disease. Recent studies have shown that music has a tremendous impact on geriatrics. In the emotionally inspiring documentary, Alive Inside, shows the effect of listening to music for people living with Alzheimer’s disease. Bringing music into nursing homes by using headphones and individually tailored playlists with music from the senior’s prime times in their life can help them become stimulated. We can see how a person with no light in their eyes, nothing but fear and confusion, can suddenly come back. The familiar music seems to bring them back to life because the songs brings back memories associated with that music that are stored in a different part of the brain. People who have hardly moved in years begin to tap their toes and bob their head and clap their hands and smile. The music is bring families back together and reuniting old with young in ways that stimulate each of their own personal growth. When asked what the music does to him, a man suffering from Alzheimer’s passionately said that it gives him a good feeling of love. Music has an amazing ability to reawaken our souls and uncover the deepest parts of our humanity (Rossato-Bennett, 2014). Music also provides comfort in the grief of