Media

Protest Songs of Arab Spring (2011)

Non-Hierarchical structure in music ensemble: Orpheus Chamber Ensemble (Most Democratic Workplace, 2007)

Oliver Sacks: The role of music to aid patients with dementia and Alzheimer's disease.

Melodic Intonation Therapy (MIT) for aphasic patients (Harvey Alter, founder of The International Aphasia Movement)

Do flocks of starlings suggest the unique aspects of rhythmic energy to provide order and structure? Rhythmic Entrainment?

12 Bar Blues Guide

Expectancy implications and violations:

- Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 3, Ist Mvt.(performed by Vestard Shimkus)

Musical fission: A musical line is perceived as two or more separate lines

1. Beethoven: "Pathetique" Piano Sonata,Op. 8, No. 13, 2nd Mvt. (performed by Daniel Barenboim)

2. Andy McKee: "Drifting"

Musical Fusion: Two or more musical lines appear to converge into one musical idea

1. Tchaikovsky: 6th Symphony, 4th Mvt. (1st and 2nd violins)

- Excerpt A is as written by Tchaikovsky. Excerpt B is as perceived by the listener.

Tchaikovsky: 6th Symphony, 4th Mvt.

Zatorre: Subjective participant list of peak pleasure-inducing musical stimuli inducing dopamine release

http://www.zlab.mcgill.ca/home.html

Alan Merriam: Functions of Human Musicality

http://prezi.com/wmixezknptrf/merriams-functions-of-human-musicality/

Ice Age Flute? Modern flute makers attempt to reproduce an ancient flute from archaeological records of a 35,000 year-old artifact.

Bobby McFerrin at the World Science Festival 2009: Notes and Neurons

Oliver Sacks: The Music Instinct

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/musicinstinct/category/video/music-and-the-brain/

Gottfried Schlaug, Neuroimaging Lab (Tone Deaf test)

http://www.musicianbrain.com/#index

The Neuroscience of Music: Implications for Music Learning

http://prezi.com/xwpbfecm6hty/neuroscience-and-music-implications-for-music-learning/

Charles Limb (TED): Your Brain on Improv