Universal property of music discovered

Music Theory & Ear Training: Relative Pitch and Perfect Pitch Free Software Beemp3.com - MP3 Search & Free MP3 Downloads Envy is a stronger motivator than admiration Admiration is happy self-surrender; envy is unhappy self-assertion. Søren Kierkegaard Mind Hacks, Not Exactly Rocket Science, The Frontal Cortex ... there are so many successful blogs out there for the Digest to admire. Or envy. In fact envy might be better. Although considered a sin, envy rather than admiration, drives us toward self-improvement. For a preliminary study, 17 undergrads were asked to describe someone they knew who was better at something than they were. It was a similar story when 82 participants were asked to recall a time they'd felt either benign envy, malicious envy or admiration (there was also a control group who didn't do the recall task). For a third study, a further 96 participants read about a fellow student called Hans de Groot, who'd just won a prize for his excellent scholarship. Having established the contrasting effects of admiration and envy, the researchers turned to the circumstances that tend to elicit one emotion more than the other.

Good Ear - Online Ear Training Site The Pink Floyd Collectors Can't feel the rhythm? You may be 'beat-deaf' By Cari Nierenberg Mathieu takes dorky dancing to a whole new level. Not only does the Canadian graduate student not get into the groove, he can't even clap in time to the music. Beat-deafness is when your arms, legs and body can't move in sync to music -- and you can't tell if another dancer isn't in the groove, either. Scientists recently wrote up Mathieu's musical misfortunes in a paper considered the first documented case of beat-deafness. The researchers believe that beat-deafness is a newly-discovered form of congenital amusia -- the most well-known form of this condition is tone-deafness. This research, to be published in an upcoming issue of the journal Neuropsychologia, recruited volunteers who felt they can't keep a musical beat. In one experiment, the researchers looked at how well 34 adults, including Mathieu, could bounce up and down to a Merengue beat, and they compared these results to keeping tempo with a metronome, a ticking device that marks musical time.

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The mathematics of being nice - life - 21 March 2011 Read full article Continue reading page |1|2 Using mathematics to tackle some of biology's biggest questions, Martin Nowak has concluded that an ability to cooperate is the secret of humanity's success. He talks to Michael Marshall about drawing fire from Richard Dawkins, the perils of punishment, and devising the mathematical equivalent of the rules of religion Why are you so fascinated by our ability to help each other out?Cooperation is interesting because it essentially means that you help someone else, someone who is a potential competitor. You say there are five different ways in which we cooperate that give us an edge, in terms of natural selection. The third mechanism is when neighbours help each other - cooperators survive in clusters. Group selection has had a tricky reputation, and has been attacked by evolutionary biologists. Unless I've lost count, there should be one mechanism left.The last one is kin selection, which can occur when you help a close relative. Can you explain?

Gehörbildung An Musikhochschulen werden die Melodiediktate zum Bestehen der Aufnahmeprüfung vorausgesetzt. Ein polyphoner Satz muss hierbei möglichst fehlerfrei nach dem Vorspielen auf dem Klavier notiert werden. Seit 2010 wird diese traditionelle Praxis vor dem Hintergrund der aufkommenden Forderung nach einer kompetenzorientierten Vermittlung von Inhalten sowohl an Schulen als auch an Musikhochschulen und Universitäten hinterfragt.[1] Ebenso ist Gehörbildung ein fester Bestandteil der Abiturprüfung im Leistungskurs Musik einiger Bundesländer. Anfangs trainiert man das Gehör, Intervalle sukzessiv und simultan zu bestimmen. Des Weiteren beinhaltet die Gehörbildung auch die Erfassung verschiedener Akkordgruppen. Siehe auch[Bearbeiten] Literatur[Bearbeiten] Einzelnachweise[Bearbeiten] Hochspringen ↑ A.