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The importance of music in society and its role in offering entertainment,
relaxation, inspiration and other such benefits is well known. In addition,
there are those who claim that music can increase intelligence, enhance human
development, improve sports performance and offer many such advantages to the
growing, ageing and ill individual.

Here are some resources on the role of music in many aspects of our working,
educational, healing and sporting lives:

MUSIC THERAPY

http://www.healey.com.au/~jazzem/
http://users.erols.com/leopold/Music.htm
http://members.aol.com/kathysl/links.html
http://www.libraries.wayne.edu/shiffman/altmed/therapy/music.html

THE ‘MOZART’ EFFECT

These resources offer information on claims that music by Amadeus Mozart in
particular can have a profound effect on learning, development and healing.

http://www.newscientist.com/ns/19991106/themozarte.html
http://www.howtolearn.com/Mozart.html
http://www.mozarteffect.com/
http://www.mindinst.org/MIND2/research.html

CRITICISM OF THE ‘MOZART EFFECT’

<http://stevenhalpern.com/monthly/dec97.htm>

http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/9908/25/mozart.iq/index.html
http://www.onlineathens.com/stories/082699/new_0826990013.shtml
http://comms.uwo.ca/news/August99/26Mozart.htm

<http://skepdic.com/mozart.html > (Skeptics Dictionary)

<Don Campbell …. has become the Carlos Castaneda and PT Barnum of the
Mozart Effect, exaggerating and distorting the work of Shaw, Rauscher and
others for his own benefit. He has trademarked the expression The Mozart Effect
and peddles himself and his products at www.mozarteffect.com. Campbell claims
that he made a blood clot in his brain disappear by humming, praying, and
envisioning a vibrating hand on the right side of his skull. Uncritical
supporters of alternative medicine don’t question this claim, though it is one
of those safe claims that can’t be proved or disproved. He might as well claim
that angels took the clot away. (One wonders why, if music is so good for you,
he got a blood clot in the first place. Accidentally listening to rap music?) >

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