Main description:

Many different disciplines are analyzing the impact of music today. How and why this ancient cultural asset molds, empowers and makes use of us can only become apparent in a synopsis and exchange involving scientific research. With this perspective as its foundation, the conference "Mozart and Science" extended invitations to the first interdisciplinary and international dialogue between the social and physical sciences about the effects of music. This book is based on the results of that congress. It contains contributions penned by leading scientists from around the world belonging to diverse music science disciplines and in particular covers psycho-physiological, neuro-developmental and cognitive aspects associated with the experience of music. Additional essays provide insights into research conducted about how music is applied in therapy and medicine.

Contents:

G. Baier, T. Herman: Sonification: Listen to Brain activity H.U. Balzer: Chronobiology - Finding a New Foundation towards Understanding the Influence of Music V. Brandes: Music Medicine C. Dileo, J. Broke: A Perspective on Evidence-Based Practice W. Gruhn: The Audio-Vocal System in Song and Speech Development G. Hunther: The Significance of Exposure to Music for Formation and Stabilization of Complex Neuronal Relationship Matrices in the Human Brain: Implications for the Salutogentic Effects of Intervention by Means of Music-Therapy P. Janata: Music and the Self S. Koelsch: Neuronal Substrates of Processing Syntax and Semantics in Music B. Lemmer: The Rhythm of the Heart - The Tempus of Music - Mozart, Ligeti and the Rat M. Lopez: Music and Child Neurology: A Developmental Perspective R. Parncutt: Prenatal "Experience' and the Phylogenesis and Ontogenesis of Music Juan G. Roederer: 'Music and the evolution of human brain function' C. Tomaino: Clinical Applications of Music Therapy in Neurologic Rehabilitation C. Trevarthen: Human Biochronology: on the Source and Function of Musicality G. Tucek, E. Ferstl, M.F. Fritz: Investigation into the Synchronization Behavior of a Group of Test Subjects During Baksy-Dhikr by Means of Psychophysiological Monitoring R. Verres: 'Responsiveness and the preparedness for responsiveness, and quiescence in a therapeutic context R. von Georgi, M. Schutz, S. Gebhardt: Emotion modulation by means of Music and Stress