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Between Smooth Jazz, World Fusion and New Age Music

0 Comments Published January 2nd, 2009 in New Age Music.

Scheherazade is both the name of the narrator of the legendary age-old tales “One-Thousand-and-One Arabian Nights” as well as the title of composer and instrumentalist Al Conti’s latest album which quickly hit #1 on the international New Age Reporter airplay charts.

Scheherazade (pronounced sheh-hair-uh-zahd) is Conti’s third album and contains ten original world-fusion tunes that musically tell the storyteller’s story. The famous tales originated throughout Persia, Arabia and India more than 1, 100 years ago, and Conti gives the music a Middle Eastern ambiance utilizing the sounds of exotic instruments (hurdy gurdy, udu, sitar, tablas and tribal drums), but making the music appealing to modern audiences by also incorporating piano, violin, cello and acoustic guitar. Read more jazz news…

Brighter Children Study Music

0 Comments Published November 5th, 2008 in New Age Music.

Harvard researchers Gottfried Schlaug and Ellen Winner say that their findings apply not only to tests of auditory discrimination and finger dexterity, but also to tests measuring verbal ability and visual pattern completion.

During the study published online in PLoS ONE, the researchers compared 41 eight- to eleven-year-olds who had studied either piano or a string instrument for a minimum of three years to 18 children who had no instrumental training.

Children in both groups spent 30-40 minutes per week in general music classes at school, but those in the instrumental group also received private lessons learning an instrument and spent additional time practicing at home.

The researchers observed that the young musicians scored significantly higher than those in the control group on two skills closely related to their music training—auditory discrimination and finger dexterity.

The musicians were also found to score higher in two skills that appeared unrelated to music—verbal ability (as measured by a vocabulary IQ test) and visual pattern completion (as measured by the Raven’s Progressive Matrices).

The researchers further said that the longer and more intensely the child had studied his or her instrument, the better he or she scored on the tests.

Based on their observations, the researchers came to the conclusion that though their study shed light on the question of whether connections between music and other, unrelated skills did exist.

They said that further studies were needed to examine the causal relationships between instrumental music training, practice intensity, and cognitive enhancements.

Shimla charm weaves Praveen Sharma?s new album - myHimachal

0 Comments Published August 26th, 2008 in New Age Music.

Shimla charm weaves Praveen Sharma?s new album
myHimachal, India - 17 hours ago
*How your journey into the music world did begin? Honestly, I was involved with music at a very young age but it wasn?t until I saw the hip hop group Run …

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