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![Gänsehaut](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/15309884/Logo_42ben9_300x300.png)
Thursday Dec 08, 2022
Thursday Dec 08, 2022
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](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/15309884/Logo_42ben9_300x300.png)
Wednesday Nov 30, 2022
Wednesday Nov 30, 2022
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](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/15309884/Logo_42ben9_300x300.png)
Thursday Nov 17, 2022
Thursday Nov 17, 2022
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](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/15309884/Logo_42ben9_300x300.png)
Friday Nov 11, 2022
Friday Nov 11, 2022
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](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/15309884/Logo_42ben9_300x300.png)
Thursday Nov 03, 2022
Thursday Nov 03, 2022
Harmony can change your disposition and that is magical.
Contact me at themagicofmusicms@gmail.com
Post your favorite memes about music on the Facebook page, which is also, The Magic of Music
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](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/15309884/Logo_42ben9_300x300.png)
Saturday Oct 29, 2022
Saturday Oct 29, 2022
Rhythm will change a simple succession of notes into a melody. This is magical.
Contact me at themagicofmusicms@gmail.com
Post your favorite memes about music on the Facebook page, which is also, The Magic of Music
Queen, We Will Rock You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tJYN-eG1zk
![The Melody as Magic](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/15309884/Logo_42ben9_300x300.png)
Wednesday Oct 26, 2022
Wednesday Oct 26, 2022
Melody is memorable and this is partly why it is magical.
Contact me at themagicofmusicms@gmail.com
Post your favorite memes about music on the Facebook page, which is also, The Magic of Music
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](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/15309884/Logo_42ben9_300x300.png)
Tuesday Oct 25, 2022
Tuesday Oct 25, 2022
This podcast details how the beat is magical in that it makes you move.
Contact me at themagicofmusicms@gmail.com
Post your favorite memes about music on the Facebook page, which is also, The Magic of Music
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](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/15309884/Logo_42ben9_300x300.png)
Monday Oct 24, 2022
Monday Oct 24, 2022
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.
Contact me at themagicofmusicms@gmail.com
Post your favorite memes about music on the Facebook page, which is also, The Magic of Music
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