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Classical music and plant growth
Published on 2010-04-13 21:43:00
Scientists and medical researchers have been looking into the affects of sound for ages; people tend to underestimate its impact on people and our surroundings. In fact those that live in or very close to busy metropolitan cities are believed to live much shorter lives than people from quiet towns and neighborhoods. Sound can change our moods, affect our appetites and even improve our growth, in certain tribes the beat of a drum during religious ceremonies produce binaural beats, which change th
Contemporary classical musicians broke all the boundaries
Published on 2010-04-07 12:15:00
Placing a starting point for the most recent era in classical music can be a little difficult, some believe that it begins roughly about 1945, where as others think that the developments of this new style happened much further back. At the end of World War 1 composers were becoming tired of the over excessive formless qualities of music from the romantic periods and some decided to return to the compositions of the classical period, which had a much more controlled pitch. The strength of the con
Rachmaninoff's First Piano Sonata
Published on 2010-01-29 14:01:00
Sergei Rachmaninoff was one of the leading composers of Russia at the end of the Romantic period and into the 20th century, particularly in the area of piano music. He was virtuoso pianist himself and wrote many works for his instrument, including two piano sonatas.In December 1906, Rachmaninoff, with his wife and daughter, moved away from the busy life of Moscow to the quite town of Dresden, Germany. He remarked in a letter that "we live here like hermits: we see nobody, we know nobody, and we
