Classical Music

Classical Music: Enrichment of the Mind, Body, and Soul Listening to classical music is like taking in a breath of fresh air--it’s like soaring through the clouds on a clear day. Mozart for the Mind, Beethoven for the Brain, Handel for the Heart, Bach for the Body, and Chopin for the Soul are just a few ways of how music is portrayed. Music has a transformative healing power that can stimulate psychological endorphines, physical improvements, and enables emotions to run free like the wind. Ludwig van Beethoven wrote, "Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life [. . .]” Johann Sebastian Bach remarked, "The aim and final reason of all music is the glory of God and the recreation of the mind." Wallace Stevens demonstrates that a simple tune played on the guitar can stimulate psychological emotions in “The Man with the Blue Guitar”: A tune beyond us as we are, Yet nothing changed by the blue guitar; Ourselves in tune as if in space, Yet nothing changed, except the place Placed, so, beyond the compass of change, perceived in a final atmosphere [. . .]” (1806). This poem reiterates the way that music can capture the essence of fantasy in everyone. Going on, Barrie Cassileth insists that music therapy is being practiced as an intervention related to medical conditions such as anxiety and depression. First, the right cerebral hemisphere is concerned with the recognition of musical pitch, timbre and harmony. Relaxing music tends to alter pulse rate together with respiratory rhythm to decrease the action potential in the muscles of the brain.and “Meditation the calms region Thais” extremities cranial from Massenet's the. violin of melodious soothes The the song us. 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