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How playing an instrument BENEFITS YOUR BRAIN

When you listen to music, multiple areas of your brain become engaged and active.

But when you actually play an instrument, that activity becomes more like a full-body brain workout.

What’s going on? Anita Collins explains the fireworks that go off in musicians’ brains when they play, and examines some of the long-term positive effects of this mental workout.

 

Answer:

1-Neuroscientists get excited about watching the brain functions of musicians because?

2-Learning a musical instrument engages which different areas of the brain at the same time?

3-The bridge between the two brain hemispheres is called?

4-Learning a musical instrument teaches your brain how to create, ______ and retrieve memories more effectively?

5-Executive function is a series of interlinked tasks that includes planning, strategizing, and attention to ________.

6-Executive function is a complex combination of brain functions that requires analysis of both the cognitive and emotional aspects of a problem or situation. What type of complex problems of situations could you think of that would use your executive function capabilities?

7-Learning a musical instrument has been found to assist in our memory abilities. How does your capacity to remember facts, ideas, things you have seen and heard, impact on your ability to learn?

8-“Playing music is the brain’s equivalent of a full-body workout.” What could be some of the short and long term effects of keeping your brain in tip-top physical shape?

MUSICAL FORMS:

 MUSICAL FORM  is the structure of a musical composition

. If we listen to some music, we will probably distinguish different sections, ans some of them will be repeated in that music.

-All musical forms are based on repetition and contast.

-Repetition is the section we can hear more than once, and contrast is what is new and makes the difference.

-There are thousands of musical forms

-Some of thenare very complicated and long( symphony, opera, sonata...) we will start studying the easiest musical forms, which are RONDEAU, CANON ,THEME AND VARIATIONS AND SONG.

RONDEAU: Is avery old MUSICAL FORM.It is used in classical music and its structure is very simple.

A-B-A-C-A

EXAMPLE:

CANON:MUSICAL FORM based on the principle of imitation.An initial melody is imitated and repeated by one or more groups of musicians who play the same thing but starting a bit later.

Iam sure you know this music: Its name is just CALLED  PACHELBEL'S CANON.It was composed by Pachelbel in the 18th century.

THEME AND VARIATIONS:

A theme is an important melody which is repeated or elaborated in a piece of music.The Variations are not changes in themselves, are repettitions in which the main theme is altered the rhythm, melody, harmony or timbre  or accompanied in a different manner each time it is repeated.

.In the following audition you will find a theme with variations based on the folia of Spain, one of the most widespread themes in Europe from the end of the 15th century: