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Hearing Levels

Added: Jun 24, 2010 - View

“A baby can hear sounds up to 30,000 cycles per second; a teen-ager cannot hear sounds above 20,000 cycles per second; a man age 50 cannot hear above 8,000 cycles; and a man age 80 cannot hear above 4,000 cycles.”

Direction of Sound

Added: Jun 24, 2010 - View

“Humans can distinguish the direction of two sounds if they originate from points at least 45 degrees apart, while dogs, with their movable ears, can distinguish sounds only 11 degrees apart.”

The Vowel Sounds

Added: Jun 24, 2010 - View

“The easiest sounds for humans to hear are the vowel sounds – ah, aw, eh, ee and oo.”

He Who Sings

Added: Jun 24, 2010 - View

“He who sings scares away his woes.”

A Life Without Bach

Added: Jun 24, 2010 - View

“Life without Bach would be unthinkable.”

The More You Practice, the Smarter You Get

Added: Jun 23, 2010 - View

“Music is good for the brain. The more you practice, the smarter you get.”

Learning Music Is an Investment in Your Happiness

Added: Jun 23, 2010 - View

“Music improves mental health—both when you’re young, and when you’re quite old and you can’t remember much else. Learning music is an investment in your happiness.”

Improvisation Is Composition

Added: Jun 23, 2010 - View

“Improvisation is just composition sped up.”

Music Stimulates Memory

Added: Jun 23, 2010 - View

“Music is one way to keep a grip on your sanity, and it helps you in old age because it stimulates the memory.”

Matter and Music

Added: Jun 23, 2010 - View

“The universe is more like music than matter.”

Music Chases Cares Away

Added: Jun 23, 2010 - View

“And the night shall be filled with music,And the cares that infest the dayShall fold their tents like the ArabsAnd as silently steal away.”

Music Is Like Life

Added: Jun 23, 2010 - View

“Music, like life, shouldn’t be too complicated and busy, or it’s harder to enjoy.”

Arts, Wellness, and the Elderly

Added: Jun 23, 2010 - View

“Artists who work with seniors tell [Paula Terry, director of the Access-Ability office with the National Endowment for the Arts] that older people’s ‘depression goes away; they become healthier; they form all these new relationships and on and on.’”

Arts Help Seniors Age Gracefully

Added: Jun 23, 2010 - View

“People need a reason to live, and arts give you a sense of connection to life. They give you a passion; they give the skills. Just the artistic process itself is one in which you have to focus and concentrate on many levels.”-Susan Perlstein, executive director of the National Center for Creative Aging/Elders Share in the Arts, Brooklyn, NY

Our Planet Is Musical

Added: Jun 23, 2010 - View

“We live on a musical planet that is alive with sound. The problem is that we have stopped listening.”-Robert W. Akers, The Blue Room (2002)

The Arts Have Always Been Part of Us

Added: Jun 23, 2010 - View

“The arts have been part of us from the very beginning … [they] have described, defined, and deepened the human experience.”-from the introduction to National Standards for Arts Education (1994)

Music Helps People Experience Their Common Humanity

Added: Jun 23, 2010 - View

“Music has a great power for bringing people together. With so many forces in this world acting to drive wedges between people, it’s important to preserve those things that help us experience our common humanity.”-Ted Turner, quoted in “The Musical Classroom” [Supplement to the Utah Music Educators Association Interface, vol. 48, no. 1] (Fall 2002)

Beauty of the Harp

Added: Jun 23, 2010 - View

“When I realize that harpists need huge vehicles to transport their instruments, I feel sorry for them. However, when I reflect more deeply, I feel more sorry for myself, because I didn’t play the harp.”-Louis Roberts, string consultant, Potter’s Violin Company, Rockville, Maryland (June 15, 2004)

Deliberate Practice

Added: Jun 23, 2010 - View

“Fifteen minutes of careful, slow practice is worth 30 minutes of frenzied prestissimo any day.”-Philip Johnson, The Practice Revolution (2002)

Ursula LeGuin on Music

Added: Jun 23, 2010 - View

“It never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact, you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.”-Ursula K. LeGuin (retrieved July 2004 from www.brainyquote.com)