Perhaps a useful experiment would be to abruptly switch to a Salieri recording, after attracting them with Mozart.
-----Original Message----- From: Edward Martin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 5:16 PM To: Eugene C. Braig IV; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; dongl Cc: lute Subject: [LUTE] Re: Music Therapy Thanks for the skeptical link. Fascinating. I have heard all these claims that the music of Mozart has. I had an interesting experience with Mozart..... I had a gig in Maui (!!) about 7 years ago [ a fantastic journey], and I took a sailboat to view the humpback whales. The captain of the boat turned off his motor, as it is apparently not legal to bring a boat to within 100 meters of a whale. But, if the whale is close, one can turn the motor off, and the whales could potentially swim up to the boat [the boat may not approach the whale]. So, the captain turned off his motor, and he turned on symphonic music of Mozart, and the whales actually did swim up to the boat & went underneath (they were huge beasts). The captain insisted that Mozart would lure the whales in, because they love Mozart & not other composers. This is not proof to me, as they may have swum to us out of curiosity with another composer's music, or perhaps with no music at all. ed At 01:18 PM 1/5/2006 -0500, Eugene C. Braig IV wrote: >At 01:06 PM 1/5/2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Another potentially interesting use of music is reflected in research > > > > from a music teacher in this country (UK) which purported to show > > > > that playing Mozart to school pupils increased their capacity to > > > > learn. > > > >The so called Mozart effect was a very attractive hypothesis, but after 10 > >years of research, became clear that unfortunately do not exist. > > >Even worse, the "Mozart effect" largely has become a sustained propaganda >effort for one man, Campbell, to pedal his brand of snake oil. Here is a >superficial little summary: ><http://skepdic.com/mozart.html> > >Eugene > > > > >To get on or off this list see list information at >http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html Edward Martin 2817 East 2nd Street Duluth, Minnesota 55812 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: (218) 728-1202
