Or Morton Feldman.
RT
From: "Stuart LeBlanc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 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
>>
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