Bibliography

Bibliography

References:

Plato (trans. Desmond Lee) The Republic, Harmondsworth Penguin 1974, page 340.

              Classic work of the Greek philosopher, Plato. In this work, he discusses the mathematical nature of music.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_and_mathematics

This Wikipedia article is included to show how much study has been done connecting music with mathematics.

Campbell, Don. The Mozart Effect : tapping the power of music to heal the body, strengthen the mind, and unlock the creative spirit (1st ed.). 1997,New York: Avon Books. ISBN 978-0380974184.

              Don Campbell can be said to have launched the “Mozart Effect” movement. This book discusses the many health and developmental benefits of music, and in it he specifically says “Music has a tremendous organizing quality to the brain.”

Thompson, Billie M.; Andrews, Susan R. "An historical commentary on the physiological effects of music: Tomatis, Mozart and neuropsychology". Integrative Physiological and Behavioral Science. 2000, p 174-188.

              This article discusses the work of Alfred Tomatis, a French physician who was the first one to use music as therapy to help with things like dyslexia, A.D.D. and other learning disabilities.

Rauscher, Frances H.; Shaw, Gordon L.; Ky, Catherine N. "Music and spatial task performance". Nature. Vol 365,  doi:10.1038/365611a0. 

Thompson, W.F., Schellenberg, E.G. & Husain, G. "Arousal, mood, and the Mozart effect". Psychological Science. Vol 12(3), p 248–251. doi:10.1111/1467-9280.00345. 

Rauscher Frances, Ph.D., Shaw Gordon, Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, 1997.

              Rauscher and others did a study in 1997 comparing SAT scores of students who had received significant musical training on an instrument (piano) as children with students who had not. The students with musical training far exceeded the students who had not on the SAT with scores at least 30% higher.

Kluball Jeffrey Lynn, University of Sarasota study,  Trent Daryl Erick , East Texas State University Study.

              Kluball says, “Middle and high school students who participated in instrumental music scored significantly higher than their non-band peers on standardized tests. University studies conducted in Georgia and Texas found significant correlations between the number of years of instrumental music instruction and academic achievement in math, science and language arts.”

College-Bound Seniors National Report: Profile of SAT Program Test Takers. Princeton , NJ : The College Entrance Examination Board, 2001.

              The College Board that manages SAT testing has said, “Students with coursework/experience in music performance and music appreciation scored higher on the SAT: students in music performance scored 57 points higher on the verbal and 41 points higher on the math, and students in music appreciation scored 63 points higher on verbal and 44 points higher on the math, than did students with no arts participation.”

https://brenda-myers.squarespace.com/data-studies

G. Schlaug, L. Jancke, Y. Huang, and H. Steinmetz . “In vivo morphometry of interhemispheric asymmetry and connectivity in musicians.” In I. Deliege (Ed.), Proceedings of the 3^rd international conference for music perception and cognition, 1994, p. 417-418.

              This scientific journal article summarizes a study done which demonstrated that musicians have better physical brain development in the parts of the brain associated with reading skills and other learning abilities.

Grażyna Gebuza, Agnieszka Dombrowska, Marzena Kaźmierczak, Małgorzata Gierszewska & Estera Mieczkowska. “The effect of music therapy on the cardiac activity parameters of a fetus in a cardiotocographic examination.” The Journal of Maternal-Fetal & Neonatal Medicine, vol. 30, no. 20, 2017, p. 2440-2445. DOI: 10.1080/14767058.2016.1253056.

              This scientific article summarizes a study done comparing the health and cardiac activity of fetuses while being exposed to music versus no music and/or being exposed to other stimulations. The study proved that only music produced healthier cardiac activity in fetuses.

HajimeFukui & KumikoToyoshima.” Music facilitate the neurogenesis, regeneration and repair of neurons”, 2008, page 4. DOI: 10.1016.

              A study showing that music can actually provoke the regrowth or new growth of neurons in the brain.

Tsunetake Miyamura, Hideaki Masuzaki, Kazuyo Oishi Kazuyuki Shinohara,”Fetal Response to Mozart’s Music”, 2010, p. 7-13, doi.org/10.11343/amn.55.7.