[Ailist] This Wednesday on PBS, a show about music, the brain, and more

[Stephanie West Allen]

Looks excellent! It is entitled "The Music Instinct: Science & Song."  
Show time is 9 ET PM.

 From the PBS Web site (link below):

More here:

While listening to music, neuroscientist Daniel Levitin, asks the  
questions “where do goose bumps come from?” and “what’s going on in  
my brain that allows the goosebumps to happen?” Levitin leads a group  
of researchers as they investigate music’s fundamental physical  
structure; its biological, emotional and psychological impact; its  
brain altering and healing powers and its role in human evolution.  
The Music Instinct: Science and Song, a fascinating two-hour  
documentary on the science of music, premieres Wednesday, June 24,  
2009 at 9 p.m. (ET) on PBS (check local listings).

The Music Instinct: Science and Song is a production of THIRTEEN in  
association with WNET.ORG – one of America’s most prolific and  
respected public media providers.

Researchers and scientists from a variety of fields are using  
groundbreaking techniques that reveal startling new connections  
between music and the human mind, the body and the universe. Together  
with an array of musicians from rock and rap to jazz and classical,  
they are putting music under the microscope.

“The brain is teaching us about music and music is teaching us about  
the brain,” says Levitin.” Music allows us to understand better how  
the brain organizes information in the world. There are a lot of  
different factors that go into our emotional appreciation of music  
[like] the memories we have of a particular song that we heard at a  
particular time in our lives.”

Internationally renowned performers Bobby McFerrin and cellist Yo-Yo  
Ma describe the way musical intervals are used or combined to create  
melody and harmony. McFerrin, together with the “World Singers,” sing  
a cappella to demonstrate that basic elements of music; pitch, tempo,  
rhythm and melody create specific reactions in our brains. Yo-Yo Ma  
plays two notes and then five more notes and then plays different  
combinations that demonstrate the way musical intervals are combined  
to create a melody or harmony.

More here:

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/musicinstinct/about/

Stephanie


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Stephanie West Allen, JD
http://www.brainsonpurpose.com
http://www.idealawg.net
Denver, CO USA