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	Music of My Mind - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Music of My Mind is a landmark album by Stevie Wonder, released on March 3, 1972 (see 1972 in music).
		Music of My Mind showcases Wonder's earlier experiments with the synthesizer, and is a more assured recording than Where I'm Coming From (his first effort while holding the majority of artistic control).
		Music of My Mind was ranked at number 284 in Rolling Stone's Top 500 albums of all time list from November 2003.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Music_of_My_Mind (396 words)

	Music and the brain
		Music therapies are in widespread use for a variety of behavioral and neurological problems.
		The music condition yielded a mean SAS of 57.56; the mean SAS for the relaxation condition was 54.61 and the mean score for the silent condition was 54.00.
		The enhancing effect of the music condition is temporal, and does not extend beyond the 10-15 minute period during which subjects were engaged in each spatial task.
	members.tripod.com /~donlevi/musicfor.html (1392 words)

	Music for the Mind (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Music for the Mind is a unique, sound stimulation program using the rich and intricate music of Persian musician Ostad Elahi.
		Music for the Mind is a unique, auditory stimulation program using the rich and intricate music of Persian musician Ostad Elahi.
		As Ostad's music was recorded under simple and nonprofessional conditions in a small room with almost no resonance, ABT softened the sound of the music by adding resonance to the original recordings, creating the effect that the music is being heard in a medium-sized concert hall.
	www.rmlearning.com /MusicForTheMind.htm (1474 words)

	Music and the Mind by Dee Dickinson
		Music is the manifestation of the human spirit, similar to language.
		In the 1960's, the Kodály system of music education was instituted in the schools of Hungary as a result of the outstanding academic achievement of children in its “singing schools.” Today, there are no third graders who cannot sing on pitch and sing beautifully.
		There are many ways to incorporate music in the curriculum of any subject, whether it is to provide a rich background for literature and writing courses, concrete ways to learn fractions and other mathematical concepts, understanding of other cultures, and accelerated ways of learning foreign languages and other subjects.
	www.newhorizons.org /strategies/arts/dickinson_music.htm (1753 words)

	Music And The Mind - Intelligence
		Music is everywhere - In bird song and in bubbling brooks and in laughter, even in the stars.
		Music is one of the SEVEN FORMS OF HUMAN INTELLIGENCE, all equal in stature and in potential.
		Music in schools, what little there is, is considered ancillary to "real education," as something of a "curricular icing." If it is to be reestablished as basic to education, as fundamental to being "an educated person," then educators and performers, composers and publishers-and those non-music-related industries-must close ranks to restore educational balance in schools.
	www.ufoc.org /michaelballam/intelligence.html (1384 words)

	Mind_and_Music
		The Mind and Music Project is the result of a twenty-year exploration of the mutual relationship between psychology and music.
		The Mind and Music Project was started by a small group of like-minded psychoanalysts all of whom had some training in music and continued current interest.
		Music thus was considered not only from the aesthetic point of view as data related to the life, in particular to the mental processes of the composer.
	www.mindandmusic.org (890 words)

	All In The Mind - 11/8/2002: Music on Your Mind
		Music psychologist, Dr Alexandra Lamont, from Keele University, started out as a musician but the tedium of university composition classes turned her to the psychology of learning music instead.
		Music is really represented all over the brain, in the left and the right; in the top and the bottom; in the front and the back.
		He heads up a new Centre for Music and Science at the University of Cambridge, and he reckons that music could, in fact, be the most important thing we humans ever did—along with language, only different—he thinks music could be what helped distinguish us from the rest of the mob.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/science/mind/s644913.htm (4108 words)

	Music of the Mind
		My hereditary retinal degeneration had left the world looking like Janet Leigh's murky view through the shower curtain in Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho." At my first concert, I would have to make do with the indistinct shards of imagery my decimated retinas and stalwart visual cortex could patch together.
		I could follow their shafts only a few feet over my head, but I had read descriptions of the odd, crooked tangle they made high above, and I could feel how massive and stout they were where they began.
		Afterward, my mind still echoing with multisensory reverberations of Delft china, light and shadow, steel and stone and wood, I savored lunch in the cafe, exhausted and happy.
	www.mdsupport.org /music.html (1071 words)

	Digital Music Blog: Music For Peaceful Mind
		Music is a simple strategy to reduce stress and create a more peaceful mind.
		Quiet, soothing digital music either playing in the background alone or is used with relaxation techniques such as meditation, deep breathing, or visualization will definitely help you relax.
		Digital Music for relaxation is the perfect and completely natural way to assist relaxation, meditation, stress management and enhance well being.
	digital-music.blogspot.com /2005/09/music-for-peaceful-mind.html (284 words)

	Music Mind Games Home Page
		Music theory is one thing all musicians have in common.
		With Music Mind Games, music theory is finally easy to understand and easy to enjoy.
		October News: Whether you are new to Music Mind Games or have been using it already, you will enjoy seeing and learning from the six new Power Point Presentations.
	www.musicmindgames.com (214 words)

	Real Music - Liquid Mind
		The seventh in his “Liquid Mind” series of utterly transfixing relaxation albums, Reflection presents a full hour of heavenly music that will surely fill your world with peace and tranquility...This is music that makes you want to forget your troubles and let your mind depart to a place of everlasting serenity and comfort.
		The music is abstract and ambient, yet exhibits a certain grandeur derived from its subtly evolving melodies and faint, almost rhythmic healing energy.
		The music is designed to help you relax deeply, during meditation, massage, yoga, rest, or in times of stress.
	www.realmusic.com /a_liquidmind.htm (887 words)

	The High Speed Results Life Transformation Formula e-book download.
		My conscious mind is VERY comfortable if I could have all my time "figured out" and I feel totally safe and balanced with everything "planned out".
		Convincing your mind that you don't want it because you already have it (the mirror effect) is a major key to super-charging your efforts to achieve all your goals, get what you want in life, and be totally successful in every way.
		It is my guess that you might also have some forbidden, dark areas of your life where you secretly, or openly, know that certain things in your life are not the way you want them to be.
	Elprehzleinn.com (8897 words)

	Music, Mind, and Meaning
		My guess is that our contrapuntal sensors harmonize each fading memory with others that might yet be played; perhaps Bach's mind could do this several ways at once.
		Each musical artist must forecast and pre-direct the listener's fixations to draw attention here and distract it from there–to force the hearer (again, like a magician does) to ask only the questions that the composition is about to answer.
		In my paper on frames [Minsky 1974] I argue that for vision, 'chair 'can be described by no single prototype; it is better to use several prototypes connected in relational networks of similarities and differences.
	web.media.mit.edu /~minsky/papers/MusicMindMeaning.html (8917 words)

	my music
		My friends and I got soaked, and all the white clothes we were wearing turned grayish-brown.
		The thing that I hadn't previously realized about Devo's music is how much fun it is. That 80s synth-pop sound that they pioneered is like some sort of musical morphine: hearing it makes the listener, no matter how unfamiliar they are with Devo, relax, sing along, and forget all their troubles.
		My sole regret in life is that the triangle rating scale doesn't go up to one hundred million billion triangles, because that's what this concert deserves.
	www.joeyalonso.com /mymusic.htm (1375 words)

	The New York Times > Arts > Connections: Decyphering the Grammar of Mind, Music and Math
		To understand music, we have been taught, that room has to be unlocked, the windows opened and the world fully engaged.
		For all of music's deep connections to human experience and social life, music was also similar to mathematics in important respects, as ancient philosophical and musical texts insist.
		Despite attempts to identify a particular musical region of the brain, for example, Dr. Tramo has shown that many regions are active when music is heard; even motor areas of the brain can become active though the body might be at rest.
	www.nytimes.com /2004/06/19/arts/19CONN.html?ex=1403064000&en=524408f92b32096d&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND (741 words)

	The Music of My Mind Wiccan Pages
		If you are one of these people, and you keep on reading I hope that the information contained within will help you to be more open-minded to different ideas concerning religion.
		My name is Suzanne Gordon, and I've been a practicing wiccan for some time.
		In no way, though, is this a complete overview of the wiccan traditions, it is, instead, what I think to be a good beginner guide containing some basic thoughts and ideas for pursuing a further interest in the wiccan tradition.
	museangel.net /wicca.html (321 words)

	Stevie Wonder: Music Of My Mind ---Ink Blot Magazine
		But when Berry Gordy finally let him spread his wings with a little creative control in 1971, a third Stevie appeared: a studio perfectionist and multi-instrumentalist capable of re-shaping the worlds of r&b and funk with amazing hooks and socially conscious lyrics.
		His classic albums of the early and mid-'70s still resonate strongly in the music world, and he's influenced everyone from The Beatles to Prince to D'Angelo.
		What he did was change music, and Motown, forever with this album.
	www.inkblotmagazine.com /rev-archive/Stevie_Wonder_Music.htm (593 words)

	Music and the Mind by Dee Dickinson. From New Horizons For Learning and also part of our collection of articles on ...
		The Netherla nds began their music program in 1968, and Japan followed suit by learning from the experience of these other countries.
		At that time, we did not have the research at hand to explain why many children who were taking musi c and painting classes suddenly began to excel in math at school.
		She has found that positive, nurtur ing, stimulating learning experiences that offer opportunities for interaction and response can result in richer neural networks, which are the “hardware” of intelligence.
	www.menc.org /publication/articles/academic/dickins.htm (1821 words)

	music
		In their lyrical way, music can often be a call to action, striving to generate support and cast doubt on the opposition.
		Its effectiveness caused the Pretoria government to force musical artists into exile and to make it illegal for their music to be aired on radio or even to be listened to privately.
		The evolution of global communication systems has enabled world music to influence the development of Western popular music, and has also allowed 'internationally acclaimed' popular music to influence the musical preferences of much of the world's population.
	imej.wfu.edu /articles/1999/1/02/demo/gallery/music.html (969 words)

	Amazon.com: Music of My Mind: Music: Stevie Wonder (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Stevie's a genius, and his music is recommended to anyone who is willing to be moved by greatness, regardless of musical preference.
		Music of My Mind is Stevie Wonder's first fully-successful recording in which he assumed complete artistic control.
		Recorded at the start of the 70s, when the singer-songwriter-multi-intstrumentalist was not yet 25, this suite of songs sounds remarkably fresh and relevant; and its arrangments transcend whatever changes in musical tastes have rendered so many lesser recordings from lesser artists of the day passe.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00004S367?v=glance (1529 words)

	BBC News \| HEALTH \| Music of the mind
		While it is not certain that these differences developed as a result of their musicianship rather than the other way around, it is a strong possibility that the musicians have reshaped their minds over the years.
		Professor Schlaug said: "Additional study is necessary to confirm causal relationships between intense motor training for a long period of time and structural changes in motor and non-motor related brain regions.
		She said: "In the last two years, there has been a fair bit of research in rats and primates looking at neurogenesis - where the new neurons are produced - and that has found that the hippocampus in particular has something to do with learning.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/health/newsid_1319000/1319753.stm (421 words)

	January/February 2001 - “Brainwave Chick” Makes Music with Her Mind
		While she admits that the computer system and the science on which it is based have not been embraced by mainstream science, Kaul has found the system to be a powerful tool in helping her relax and move swiftly into a focused mental state.
		In each performance, the computer was connected to nontraditional musical instruments, and Kaul, wearing the headband, would sit quietly before the audience, allowing her brain waves to be processed through the instruments.
		While Kaul enjoys the creative outlet her music provides, she also enjoys knowing that she is raising the awareness of others that they can program their state of mind.
	www.gmu.edu /news/gazette/0001/brainwave.html (776 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Music of My Mind [Original recording remastered]: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		I do not agree that music of my mind is second to songs in the key of life neither is innervisions a bit of hit and miss.
		Superwoman still sounds remarkable and some songs sound a bit unfinished, but as the title says it was the music of his mind and not what was being played on the radio.
		Whisper this quietly, so as not to offend lovers of Stevie's other epc 70's work, but Music of My Mind is a close second only to Songs in the Key of Life.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004S367 (997 words)

	CBS News \| Music On One's Mind \| December 12, 2002 18:33:11
		It is the part that remembers music and is even able to recognize a sour note in the midst of a familiar tune.
		In the study, eight people who had studied music for at least 12 years listened to the music and were asked to pick out specific tones and to detect notes played by a flute-like instrument instead of a clarinet which had dominated the music.
		Janata said the fact that the brain is naturally wired to appreciate and remember music suggests that the pleasant sounds were an important of part of the human mind from the earliest of times.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2002/12/12/tech/main532887.shtml (517 words)

	Amazon.com: Music of My Mind: Music: Stevie Wonder (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		I began to learn what real music is. Music that comes from the heart and gives you a glimpse of a person's soul.
		Super Woman is probably my favorite becuase of the powerful vocals on the second half, but Happier than the Morning Sun moves me to tears every time I hear it.
		It's better and more complete than "Talking Book" in my view, It doesn't quite match up to the best parts of "Innervisions" or "Songs in the Key of Life" but this is still a must have album.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000001A6F?v=glance (1400 words)

	Clif Johnston » My Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		My heroes were always the famous virtuoso guitarists who seemed to find some way to focus all their time and energy on playing.
		The result, all too often, is that we give it up all together, resolving ourselves to deal with the sense of loss that ensues as opposed to consciously dealing with the continual feelings of failure.
		I wrote my first entry about this goal 23 weeks ago and I’ve gotten absolutely nowhere…which is why I’ve decided to post weekly about my goals.
	www.clifjohnston.com /?cat=6 (1066 words)

	Music of my Mind
		Me with my cat Sophie which is now buried in my yard.
		Our music is influenced to the early punk-rock sound of the mid-70's, to early 80's.
		Me with my cat Sophie which is now buried in my ya...
	russeaton.blogspot.com (878 words)

	Anne Wilson
		But more and more I find myself channelling my inner Dorothy Day as I contemplate my middle-class friends and their families devastated not only by unemployment, but by one layoff after another, with each subsequent job paying less and demanding more work than the last.
		My first reaction was, "Oh, no, another ill-conceived Bush administration no-brainer, like No Child Left Behind." However, the bill actually might make both environmentalists, Greens, and "crunchy conservatives" quite happy.
		This no doubt tells my age, but back in the paleolithic era, when I was a young mother, we had to fight tooth and nail to find doctors that wouldn't prescribe antibiotics randomly.
	annewilson.blogspot.com /2003_02_01_annewilson_archive.html (12484 words)

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