...Does Playing Mozart to Babies Make Them Smarter? Name: Fiona Ewing Student No.: n8588589 Subject: PYB100 Foundation Psychology Unit Coordinator: Dr Mariann Word Count: 1664 Researchers have claimed that the Mozart effect accomplished everything from temporary increases in IQ to creating the mental mechanism needed for infants to develop reasoning and analytical prowess. However there is little academic research and evidence of the Mozart effect on babies, making it difficult to contribute a link between the theory and intelligence enhancement it has on babies. Many research scientists haven’t been able to replicate the results or the results are temporary and have concluded that there is no evidence of the Mozart effect. Firstly by exploring the initial Mozart experiment conclusions can be draw regarding the Mozart effect and intellectual enhancement on babies. Secondly, through critical evaluation of research articles that were conducted to prove or disprove the theory, conclusions can be drawn regarding the Mozart effect and the degree of intellectual enhancement it has on babies. Thirdly, academic research suggests there is a scientific explanation behind the Mozart effect that provides a deeper understanding of the theory’s claims towards enhancing intelligence. There has been a lot of attention drawn to the first scientific experiment that introduced the Mozart effect. Rauscher, Shaw and Ky (1993) conducted an experiment with thirty-six college students that were...
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...Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart In January of 1756, a musical genius was born in the city of Salzburg. From the earliest of ages, it was clear that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was going to be special. He showed signs of one day being a music prodigy. He was one of the most influential composers of the Classical era. He was dedicated to his music and before he passed away, he had composed over 600 pieces of work. About the time that Mozart came into the world of music, the world was experiencing a time of transition. Before the Classical era, the Renaissance and Baroque periods ruled the music, art and way of thinking. This time of transition also resembled the transition in government. The Roman Empire was beginning to divide into small, self run governments that were headed by groups of rich aristocrats. The Classical era was a time in which the compositions of music were rich with complex instrumentation. Mozart's works reflected the Classical era, highlighting difficult and well thought out works of art. Music was always a part of Mozart's life. His father was a well known musician in the Salzburg court. His father, Leopold, was a composer, esteemed violinist and assistant concert master. He encouraged Mozart and his lone sister, Maria Anna, to explore the world of music and instruments. After observing his sister, at the age of three, Mozart began to play keyboard. His father tutored him, instilling the importance of fundamentals and the functions of chords. Leopold tried...
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...Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart change music? That is what this research paper will be about. To me, Mozart’s music is at level of perfection that is unreached by any other composer. Unlike most composers where a composer would only excel in one aspect of music, Mozart excelled in all aspects of music. Mozart had melodic grace like Handel, harmonic complexity like Bach and intellectual developmental techniques as well as emotional content like Beethoven. Mozart also reigned supreme in all styles of music including: fugue, sonata, symphony, concerto, opera, choral music, cannon and cetera. Mozart could do anything. However from what I have learned, there is something deeper inside his music moving as a fundamental undertone throughout his music and ability. As I analyzed the works of the other great composers of this time like Bach, Beethoven and Handel, I noticed how these composers methodically and systematically wrote their music. For example, the sharp melodies and odd intervals in a Bach fugue suggest that his melodies are harmonically born. Bach wrote his music with a harmonic mindset and writes his melodies so that they fit his harmonies. In the opposite way, Handel wrote his music in a way that his harmonies are derived from his melodies. Beethoven had a very logical approach to his music. Starts off with a short theme and that forms the basis of the rest of the movement. So in saying all this, what I mean is their music was manageable. However, with Mozart, I am rather...
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...Student’s name Professor’s name Course name Date Mozart Introduction According to Fisher (15), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a powerful Austrian composer whose success can precisely be dated from his childhood. The composer was born in Salzburg in 1756 and died in 1791 having written over 600 pieces of work of which many remain popular to date. Mozart could play clavichord at the age of three and began writing short compositions at the age of four. When he was 5, he gave his first public performance at Salzburg University. Between 1763 and 1766, Mozart, Nannerl, his sister who was talented in music, together with their father who was a musician as well toured Europe. They visited Paris, London among several other places where Mozart gave several successful concerts, even performing before royalty. This research paper examines the crucial role Mozart played during The Enlightenment. It further highlights the contribution made by the Austrian composer in the transition to romantic from the Enlightenment. Before and during the time of Mozart, composers served the royal courts or church as highly-skilled servants. In the same manner, he began his carrier by working for Salzburg’s Archbishop. Notably, his travels to France as well as England gave him an exposure to the ideals of equality and independence as well. This exposure prompted him to sever his loyalty to the master who employed him to offer services in a very rigid manner. He left for Vienna where he...
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...low strings, which decrescendos and repeats. The repeated runs in the second violins and flutes provide a mysterious tone and the mood eventually changes to something a bit playful and bouncy. There is also a line repeated by the upper voices to represent femininity and low sustains to show authority and power, which ties into the rest of the opera very well. The end goes into a beautiful soli that maybe used to represent love. Mozart uses these and many techniques to portray emotions felt by characters in the opera. "Mozart - Flute Concerto No. 1 in G Major (K. 313) By Emmanuel Pahud Soloist...
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...At the point when the epileptic patients listened to Mozart's piano sonata K448 there was a recognizable reduction in epileptic movement recorded on the electroencephalogram (EEG) (Jenkins, 2001). The study was then contracted down to one male who was oblivious. Listening to the chose music it was noticeable that his main examples went from 62% to 21 % an unmistakable change (Jenkins, 2001). As indicated by Lin et al. (2011), Mozart K.448 was likewise viable in diminishing the impacts of epilepsy in youngsters. Particularly, the result was a diminishment in recurrence of the epileptic scene. This study has merit for three reasons: (1) it demonstrates the Mozart Effect is genuine, it demonstrates the Mozart Effect is not...
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...Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was and still is one of the greatest composers to ever live. His name, music, and reputation are known to the world over, and to the majority of people worldwide, despite the fact that most people know little to nothing about Mozart or his music. Mozart’s fame stemmed from his start in composing music when he was just four, as well as his start in writing minuets by the age of five. As Mozart grew, he started to write symphonies around the age of eight or nine. His very first opera was performed when he was just eleven years old. Mozart also played numerous instruments during his lifetime; by the age of 3, he was already playing the harpsichord. Mozart was extremely talented on the keyboard and knew how to play...
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...Marinda McDonald Music 1010 Summer 2014 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Mozart was born Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in Salzburg, Austria to Anna Maria Walburga Pertl and Johann Georg Leopold Mozart on January 27, 1756; but his baptismal records display his name as Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart. (Binder) He and his sister Anna (a.k.a Nannerl) were the only two who survived out of the seven children the other five died during their infancy. Mozart’s family lineage is made up of musically talented people on both sides of his family. His mother’s father was a musician and his father Leopold a musician and a well-known teacher; it was his father who taught them about music. His sister played the keyboard and was quite good, but at the age of four years old Mozart outshined her. It was at a young age his father could tell he was meant to be a great musician and composer. His father was not only a musical teacher, but was an educated man as well and so naturally his father taught Mozart, and so it was that he was further along in his education than most boys his age, but for Mozart music was his passion, love, main interest. (Funk & Wagnalls New World) Amadeus was such a talented man that he was able to play the violin and harpsichord by the age of four, and a year later he was composing music. At age six Wolfgang went on his first tour escorted by his family. (Bio. A&E Television) The majority of his younger life was spent touring, and it was during...
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...Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and the symphony W.A Mozart was the first great composer who writes the music for the piano, and he wrote many different kind of music like symphonies, operas, solo concertos, and chamber music. Mozart composed forty-one symphonies from which "Symphony No.25 in G Minor K.183" and "Symphony No.40 in G Minor K.550" are most popular one and written in G minor. Mozart was from the mid classical period and wrote pieces which included multiple themes in a single movement. Mozart was brilliant composer in the true classical style and succeeded to satisfy the desire of his musical connoisseurs even though of the classical era’s rigid constraints. "Symphony No. 25 and 40," both have similar first, second, and forth movements...
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...Mozart, was born in 1756, and died in 1791, he was considered to be the most extraordinarily gifted child in the history of music. He began composing by the age of five, and at thirteen he had written sonatas, concertos, symphonies, and several operas. Which allowed him to become known, he travel around Europe with his father playing for royal families. Beethoven was born in 1770 and died in 1827, he had the opportunity to work under both Haydn and Mozart, which allowed his music to be versatile, because his works were inspired by Mozart and Haydn and composed with Beethoven's sense of style. Haydn was in 1732 and died in 1809, he was the only one who could compose and sing, which allowed him to stand out from the rest. Between both Beethoven...
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...MUL 1010 Mozart Research Paper Wolfgang A. Mozart was one of the greatest composer of his time, or maybe the greatest composer that ever existed. He began writing symphonies at a very young age and started to play publicly at the age of 6, which makes him a prodigy. Since, Mozart was considered a genius, many would think that he is very educated, well behaved, and with dignity. But, on the contrary, Mozart was a complicated/dirty little guy that had weird and unique fetishes. While researching about his fetishes, I found out that he had a thing with human feces. He wrote to his cousin that he wanted to discharge fecal matter on her face and watch it drip down her chin. I was surprised and disturbed that he had this type of behavior, because I always thought that he liked to elegantly sit down, drink wine, and enjoy a rich life. But, I had no idea about how messed up Mozart was. To include, I was only able to find out that Mozart rarely wore a wig and he only wore it to official occasions. During Mozart’s life time, he had being traveling to many European countries in which he was presented as a genius composer. He had also traveled to Paris with the purpose of looking for a better job, but he was discontent for how were things going. After a while, with a young age of 24-25, Mozart moved to Vienna in 1781(May 1-May 2). He moved to Vienna because, he noticed the good opportunities and good living that this place was offering to musicians. So, he started to develop as a...
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...The phrase ‘The Mozart Effect’, aptly named after Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, describes a phenomenon where children, under the age of three, listened to Mozart’s music and have improved brain function. According to Claudia Hammond, this phenomenon originated in 1991 when a study at the University of California Irvine showed that students who listened to Mozart and then attempted spatial puzzles completed those puzzles more successfully than students who did not listen to Mozart. A farmer in Italy claimed that when his “buffalos were played Mozart three times a day, they produced better milk” (Hammond) and some studies have found that simply listening to as well as practicing music “can increase IQ by as much as three points” (Hammond). Even...
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...nor by pantomime express my thoughts and feelings, for I am no dancer; but I can by tones, for I am a musician.” said Mozart. Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, more commonly known as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, was born on January 27, 1756, in Salzburg, Austria. Mozart was the only surviving son of violinist Leopold Mozart and his mother Maria Pertl Mozart and had only one sister, Maria Anna, who was nicknamed Nannerl. Starting music at a young age, his father quickly realised that Mozart had a talent after teaching Mozart the keyboard. Mozart composed his first composition at the young age of 5. Later on in his life, he was appointed an assistant concertmaster. He has also played for royalty and his music influenced a lot of composers later on. Mozart died at the early age of 35 on December 5, 1791. Some reasons why he is the greatest composer in history is that he only lived to the age of 35, while Bach lived to the age of 65, he had learned more instruments than Bach, and the Mozart Effect....
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...One of greatest musical genius of all time was Mozart, who was born in Salzburg, Austria on January 27, 1756 and whose full baptized name was Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart. He was named after his maternal grandfather, Wolfgang, his godfather, Theophilus, and after the saint on his date of birth, Johannes Chrysostomus. The name Theophilus means “lover of God” and its Latin equivalent is Amadeus, which is the middle name by which he became best known during his lifetime. His father, Leopold Mozart, was a composer, violinist, and an assistant concertmaster at the Salzburg court. His mother, Anna Maria Pertl, was the daughter of Wolfgang Nikolaus Pertl, an official from Sankt Gilgen. Mozart also had a sister, Maria Anna Mozart, also known as Nannerl, who was five years older than him and who was also a quite talented musician. Having been brought up in a family, where music was everywhere, it was natural for Mozart to be attracted to music. He started to play the keyboard at age three and started composing small melodious numbers. His career began at age six, when his father decided to showcase the talent of both his children, with performances in European Courts. For the next three years, Mozart toured Europe with his father and sister, giving performances at major cities and in front of royalty such as Louis XV at Versailles and George III in London. They played the piano and violin and astonished their audiences with their musical prowess. ...
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...engulfed in the aria’s beautiful sounds and we all seemed rather hypnotized by Sesto’s graceful runs up and down the scale. The instrumentals in the opera made the scenes come to life. The clarinet solos in particular touched my heart. They played the most soothing sound, I felt as if I had gone straight to Heaven. Not only was the opera amazing, but the Estates Theatre was as well. The audience was spoiled with plush seats, luxurious lighting, and romantic décor. The only disappointment I had with this opera was that Mozart was not in attendance. I had truly hoped that he would make an appearance. At first, I was devastated at this. I have always hoped to meet the man that produced works that only the Gods could create. However, as the opera went on, I felt as if I was shaking hands with Mozart. As the orchestra played on, I realized that the music had Mozart in it. I felt as if I was having an intimate relationship with Mozart. As long as the music plays, Mozart will always be transcending upon his listeners. Although I still wish that I could have met him, his music brought me closer to his inner being. I have always been a patron of opera. I have seen the amazing works, and I have also seen the regrettable productions. This opera included some of the greatest vocals and stunning technique. I am so thankful that I had gotten a chance to witness “La...
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