The Magic of Music

Gänsehaut

This Miscellany No. 8 details that magical moment we have when music causes us to get chills. The technical term for this is frisson, but we call them goosebumps. The episode is titled Gäsehaut because I have another German story about this and this is their term for frisson.

Music is a Verb

Some argue that the value of music is in the doing of music. This has been called musicing and it is rooted in a philosophy called Praxialism. Imaging that, doing music is fun.

Three Domains of Learning

Music engages us in three domains, which are cognition, psychomotor, and affective. It is the only subject that easily allows us to be in all three at the same time.

Harmonic Series and Sympathetic Vibrations are Magic

Show Notes
Dr. Meredith Arksey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yUa8-MEHwc
Good explanation about strings using sympathetic vibrations to improve intonation
 
Mechanical Metronomes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suQbK7AA5XI
Watch these mechanical metronomes synch with one another
 
Practical Engineering
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXTSnZgrfxM
Explains the Tacoma Narrows Bridge
 
Physics Girl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oc27GxSD_bI
Demonstrates and discusses how the voice can break glass
 
Viola D’Amore Photo
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=viol+demore&atb=v241-1&iax=images&ia=images&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fvancikviolin.com%2Fwp-content%2Fgallery%2Fviola-damore%2FIMG_5166.JPG
 
Viola D’Amore Introduction by Rachel Barton Pine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1Qmmx7zoO8
Go to 18:00 mark to hear a performance on the instrument
 
Tuning the Hand with Physics and Feeling by Matthew H. Spieker
Spieker, M. H. (2022) Tuning the Hand with Physics and Feeling. American String Teacher. 72(1), 33-36.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00031313211065511?icid=int.sj-abstract.citing-articles.1
 

The Harmony as Magic

Harmony can change your disposition and that is magical.
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Part of Pentatonix’s YouTube video of Amazing Grace, My Chains are Gone is used in this miscellany. Listen to the entire video, it is mind blowing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Obp-9BEZe1c
 
 

The Rhythm as Magic

Rhythm will change a simple succession of notes into a melody. This is magical.
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Queen, We Will Rock You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tJYN-eG1zk
 
 
 
 
 

The Melody as Magic

Melody is memorable and this is partly why it is magical.
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Bobby McFerrin, Don’t Worry, Be Happy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-diB65scQU
This little gem has Robin Williams in it as well.
Fifty Nifty
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uv5VhuUfwC4
Clip from the Sundance Film Festival featuring Henry and a talk from Dr. Oliver Sacks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HLEr-zP3fc
 
 

The Beat as Magic

This podcast details how the beat is magical in that it makes you move.
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Henri Mancini’s Baby Elephant Walk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RPQKV6ijBY
Duke Ellington’s band playing, It Don’t Mean a Thing if it Ain’t Got That Swing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDQpZT3GhDg
 

Introduction and Parody

This is the inaugural podcast of the Magic of Music. I introduce who I am, how I came up with the podcast name, and why I am doing this project.
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