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Music
Music is the
creation of complex sequences of sounds that have a
pleasant effect. For some reason, when more than one
frequency is created simultaneously, it can have an a
profoundly pleasant, or amazingly disconcerting effect.
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The
Pitch
In Music, the
sensation of frequency is commonly referred to as the
pitch. A Low pitched sound vibrates at a lower frequency
than a high pitched sound. When two sounds are very
close to the same pitch, we normally experience the
sound as an oscillating sound with a beat. However, when
the sounds differ by enough, we start to hear the two
separate independent sounds.
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The Law Of
Octaves
The Musical
Law of octaves is a law stating that in the musical
sense, notes of different frequencies have the same
"tone" or musical quality. You can easily experiment
with this by playing various notes on a piano. Notice
that all the C notes, or all the G# notes have the same
sound. This fact of music is so important that it is
probably responsible for the note naming convention in
music.
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The Human
Ear
The human
ear is made up of several components, the outer ear,
middle ear, and inner ear. The Outer Ear The outer ear
is the part that we see. The ear reflects and directs
sounds into the middle ear. The shape of the ear has a
distinct effect on the sound that is directed into our
middle ear, and sounds that are reflected away. The
Middle Ear The middle ear is the tube that connects the
outer ear to the inner ear. The Inner Ear The inner ear
is where the sound is detected, amplified and conducted
through bones, and detected in the cochlea.
VANGELIS:
The
Giant Of Giants In Electronic Music
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1878 Thomas Edison patents the
recording of sound onto discs and cylinders.
1880s Use of
binaural was popular-two microphones, spaced the width of the human
head feeding a remote pair of headphones, produced very realistic
sound images with stable, directional attributes.
1888 Emile
Berliner shows first example of a working "phonograph" playback
device. He was the first person, who produced disc records, stamped,
or melded records commercially. The sound volume from the Berliner
discs was much greater than that from the contemporary
cylinders.
1888 Basics of magnetic recording put forth by Oberlin
Smith.
1889 Danish inventor Valdemar Poulsen patents the first
magnetic recorder.
1925 First electronic recordings made with
the use of a microphone released to the public.
1931 First stereo
recordings made by Bell Telephone Laboratories, for experimental
use.
1931 Alan Blumlein filed a British Patent Specification
about sound-recording.
1935 Development of the tweeter and
woofer in loudspeaker technology to reduce loudspeaker distortions.
1936 The first true magnetic tape recorder, the Magnetophone, is
issued.
1939 'AC Bias' added to tape recordings to reduce noise
and distortion and to affect the frequency response.
1948
Introduction of Long Play (LP) record by CBS.
1948 First
transistor introduced.
1949 Developmental work on the acoustic
suspension loudspeaker done by Harry Olsen.
1954 Introduction of
stereo tapes to the public.
1954 Edgar Villchur and Henry Kloss
begin to popularize the acoustic suspension loudspeaker, which is a
type of loudspeaker in which the motion of the woofer cone is
stabilized by air pressure within the sealed cabinet.
1962 First
stereo FM radio broadcasts.
1964 Philips makes public the
compact cassette.
1975-1978 Early digital recording made.
1983 First CD player made available through technology developed
by Sony and Philips.
Pythagoras (Greek mathematician,
569-475 BC) taught his students that music could erase negative
emotions. Aristotle (Greek philosopher 384-322 BC) lauded the
healing qualities of the flute. Today, modern researchers have
documented that certain sounds and music do have measurable, potent
and diverse healing benefits.
According to quantum physics,
all of life, including the human body at its smallest, most
fundamental level, is nothing more than vibration or sound. So it
should come as no surprise that certain sounds and music can have a
balancing and reorganizing influence on our body, mind and
consciousness. Not surprisingly, modern medicine recognizes that all
the systems of our bodies, for example, breathing, digestive system
and pulse, operate by cycles and rhythms. These rhythms are
influenced by, and may even synchronize with, the beat of certain
music.
If you want to give your immune system a boost, music
may help. Interleukin-1, a component of the immune system, was found
in a 1993 study to increase by 14 percent in subjects after they
listened to specific music. A 1998 Japanese study of 19 patients
treated with music therapy found a significant increase in the
number and activity of natural killer cells. Immunoglobulin, found
in saliva, also increases as a response to music therapy.
In
June 2002, Blue Shield released its study on the effectiveness of
guided therapy tapes or cds in reducing pain and anxiety from
surgery. The study found that 57% of patients who listened to the
audio recordings said they experienced less pain than expected from
their surgery; 45% had high anxiety before listening to the tapes
but less than 5 % experienced similar anxiety after listening before
surgery. The more anxious patients felt, the more frequently they
listened to the recordings and the greater improvement they
documented.
Music has been found to be especially beneficial
for premature infants. A 1998 study found that premature infants who
were sung to had decreased heart rates, less distressed behavior,
better oxygenation, ate more, gained more weight and left newborn
intensive care 3 days earlier.
Music thanatology is a new
branch of music therapy that helps people cope with death and dying.
Music therapists use music to relieve depression, anxiety and pain
and help improve overall quality of life for dying patients. The use
of sound and music in death and dying, however, is anything but new.
There are records in the Vedic culture, dating back at least 5,000
years, of using sound for this purpose.
The Theory of a Musical Universe
"The universe consists solely of waves of motion." relates Walter Russell in chapter 31 of A New Concept of the Universe. Another way of saying this is: "There exists nothing other than vibration." In Russell's statement lies the base for his next blast at orthodoxy's belief in a material universe: "Any theory which cannot find a fitting place within the wave has no other place for it in Nature." Hard words for sure but can they stand up to scrutiny? Is it possible to create a paradigm of nature that is structured entirely on wave or vibration theory? Investigating the pioneer work of John W. Keely's Sympathetic Vibratory Physics would lead us to believe this is so.
Logically speaking for such a paradigm to exist it would be couched entirely in vibration terms and concepts and would evolve from the simple to the complex addressing atomic phenomena all the way through human activity. This author believes this can be done albeit not exhaustively in so short a paper as this one. Inasmuch as a premise voiced ought to be demonstrated it will herein be shown how all vibration is intimately connected to all other vibration thereby demonstrating 1) the interconnectedness of all things and energies; 2) all things are they themselves built up from simple vibration to complex chords using universal principles of vibration alone; 3) there is no such thing as chaos in the universe; 4) all things exist by virtue of harmony among the vibrations that make it what it is; and 5) all things are intimately connected by sympathetic vibration.
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