Recently, some scientists have suggested that music, like upright and straight walking and language function, is a gradually formed ability of human beings in the process of evolution, which appeared in the early history of human beings and helped people survive in harsh environments.
first of all, music is everywhere. From the three-step dance in the Amazon River to the hot dance in Amsterdam, no matter where the world is or what kind of culture, music is regarded as an important and indispensable part without exception.
In fact, the "Divjebabeflute" carved on bones found by scientists in Slovenia is the oldest musical instrument. This musical instrument can be traced back to 4, years ago. At that time, people all over Europe and North America were still covered with snow and ice.
If this oldest musical instrument has existed for 4, years, vocal music may have existed for twice or more. Professor Harry estimates that music may have existed when the race was just formed.
Another fact that supports the biological basis of music is that some people can't tell the tone after hearing loss in the brain, but when he sees the lyrics of the corresponding song, he can hear it nine times out of ten.
Of course, there are not a few people who are skeptical about this statement. Steven Pinker wrote a book entitled "How the Brain Works" in 1997, saying that compared with language, eyesight, social skills and physical strength, without music, human life style will not change fundamentally. Pinker believes that music is something invented by people. Because it can make people's body and mind get great pleasure, it has been continuously continued and developed. In other words, people invented music because they like it.
Sandro Toja of the University of Toronto, USA, commented on Pinker's point of view, saying that his statement is very clever, but it is not correct. Toja Bo once traveled all over the world, and she found that wherever she was, her mother sang to her baby in almost the same way: high pitch, slow melody and emotional tone. Although each race's culture has its own lullaby, they are so similar that even if you don't know the language at all, you won't miss it.
This gave her an inspiration: Music is not an invention of human beings. If we all use music to communicate with babies, this is an instinctive way of communication between mothers and babies.
Therefore, if a musical gene appears in the early stage of human beings, it is easier for those who have these musical genes to have healthy offspring, and each generation will enjoy the benefits brought by music as a gift. Music makes every individual more attractive to the opposite sex. Even Darwin himself is very satisfied with this explanation of music, but many scholars disagree with this view, because from many situations in the biological world, peacocks attract the opposite sex with their tail feathers, moose attract the opposite sex with their antlers, and larks attract the opposite sex with their songs, but all these phenomena are manifested in male animals. For human beings, music is possessed by both sexes.
Maybe we will never know how music developed in the long river of history, but in any case, music is our extremely valuable wealth.
2. Music is also related to human health
In recent years, many scientists have confirmed through scientific research that music has a positive effect on people's physical and mental health and has many wonderful functions.
An American medical scientist once counted the ages of 35 famous American music directors who died. Their average life expectancy was 73.4 years, which was 5 years higher than that of American men. According to surveys in Germany, Italy and other countries, people who often listen to music usually live 5 to 1 years longer than those who don't listen to music.
Music therapy has been popular in many countries. Through clinical experiments, the medical community has determined that music is very effective in relaxing body and mind, refreshing spirit and inducing sleep. Physiologically, music can cause changes in breathing, blood pressure, heart beating and blood flow. Some types of music can also stimulate the body to release a natural opiate called endorphin, which can relax the body and mind and relieve pain.
In p>1972, the Polish government set up the first "Music Therapy Institute" on the advice of several pathologists and musicians, which was quite effective. Soon, state-owned hospitals such as Britain, America and Japan also adopted the method of music therapy. For example, listening to music three times a day after meals can treat neurogastritis; Listening to lyric music to patients with hypertension can lower blood pressure; Listening to soft and relaxed music to frightened people can make patients quiet and even return to normal.
why does the human body react in a specific music environment? Medical researchers believe that this is closely related to the rhythm of human cells themselves. When the vibration of human cells is in harmony with the external rhythm, people feel comfortable.
Westerners believe that listening to western music, especially classical music, has the best effect. Some experts pointed out that Schubert's music can help the insomniacs fall asleep, Bach's music can relieve indigestion, and Mozart's music can relieve the pain of rheumatoid arthritis. Others say that Mozart's music can eliminate fatigue and revive the spirit.
The medical community in China has also conducted extensive research on the health-preserving effect of music. According to the theory of Chinese medicine, the characteristics of China's five tones (Gong, Shang, Jiao, Zheng and Yu) coincide with the five elements (gold, wood, water, fire and earth). For example, the palace sound is majestic and broad, with the characteristics of "earth", which can enter the "spleen" in the five internal organs; Shang yin is pure and solemn, with the characteristics of "gold" and can enter the "lungs"; The horn sound belongs to "wood" and can enter "liver"; The sound sign belongs to "fire" and can enter "heart"; Feather sound belongs to "water" and can enter "kidney" Five tones and five internal organs, two seemingly different concepts, interact with each other through the "five elements".
The so-called "appropriate music environment" in the West is selected in the East according to the individual's physique. For example, the "fire" type people should choose "water" music to reduce their impetuous mood, and the "water" type people should listen to "fire" music to enhance their kidney function, while the "wood" type people are indecisive and listen to "gold" music to motivate themselves.
However, not all music is beneficial to people's physical and mental health. A psychologist abroad once analyzed 28 members of three different symphony orchestras. The results show that most band members who mainly play classical music are in a stable and happy mood; More than 7% of the members who play modern music or mainly play modern music suffer from nervousness, more than 6% are impatient, more than 22% are depressed, and some people often suffer from insomnia, headache, earache and diarrhea. Others have made a survey of some music lovers and found that in families who often enjoy classical music, people get along well with each other; People who often enjoy romantic music are cheerful and active; In a family keen on noisy modernist music, members often quarrel with each other. It is said that listening to this music for a long time will stimulate the nervous system strongly and even destroy the normal function of the heart and vascular system.
3. Music is also closely related to children
Listening to music can enhance memory
A study by the Chinese University of Hong Kong shows that music training can not only improve Tao Zhi's temperament, but also enhance his memory of language.
Among the 6 female students in the Chinese University who were tested, the female students who received music training as children can remember 17% more written materials than the female students who did not receive music training.
Chen Ruiyan, a professor of psychology at the Chinese University who is in charge of this research, said that previous studies on brain intelligence found that musicians' left brain is larger than the average person, and their left brain may be more developed than the average person, and the left brain is also mainly responsible for language memory. Therefore, receiving formal music training is likely to make people's left brain develop better; Even the language forgetting ability controlled by the left brain has been improved together.
This study is also good news for some amnesia patients whose language ability is affected. Because learning music does not require language skills, if patients have the opportunity to learn and enjoy music, their memory may be gradually improved.
developing children's musical memory
cultivating children's musical memory is an important part of intellectual development, and it is the basis for creating musical activities.
how to develop children's musical memory?
1. Review and repeat the memorization method in time. When cultivating children's musical memory, children should be asked to sing some songs or dance some times every day. It is usually repeated 3 ~ 4 times, and most children can remember it. However, because children begin to forget quickly, especially a lot in a short time, and then gradually decrease, so the principle of "keeping secrets first and then sparse" should be adopted in repeated exercises, so as to avoid forgetting.
2. Visual method of images Because children are young, their thinking methods are mainly visual and intuitive, and their feelings are quick, adults should adopt visual method of images to develop their musical memory.
3. In music activities, adults should mobilize children's various senses and carry out memory training in various forms and channels.
4. Incorporate memory training into children's daily activities. Imagination is extremely active and rich in games, and memory is developed in repeated activities. Adults should let children get pleasure in games and develop their memory.
Music can make children look beautiful
According to the research of American scientific research departments, listening to music often can change children's appearance and make them beautiful.
From a genetic point of view, a person's facial appearance is determined by genetic genes. If you want to fundamentally change your appearance, you must go to a hospital for cosmetic surgery. However, experts point out that using music can change the appearance of young children.
Often let children listen to some cheerful music, and use music to stimulate their nerves, which will make children's body and mind grow healthily. The Japan Association for Early Childhood Development has tried this and achieved good results. They gathered dozens of newborn children and took photos and videos one by one as original materials. Then Mozart's serenade is played three times a day in the morning, afternoon and evening. At first, it didn't cause any changes, but after four months, the faces of these children have changed a lot, their expressions are more lively and coordinated than ordinary children, and even their eyes are fundamentally different from ordinary children.
It can be seen that letting children listen to more beautiful music in early childhood can not only develop their intelligence, but also make their faces beautiful, which shows that the charm of music is endless.
How can music promote children's intellectual development
At present, the popular prenatal education music is very popular. Those melodious, gentle and tactful tunes not only make the mother feel relaxed and happy, but also make the fetus in the mother infected, so that the "intrauterine world" in which they live is as full of sunshine as outside the mother's body, thus making them healthy, beautiful and intelligent. Why can music promote children's intellectual development?
When people enjoy music, both adults and children often feel intoxicated. Music can make you forget the world around you and enter a fairy-like world. No wonder psychologists often call for making good use of beautiful music to adjust their emotions and cultivate their character. For children, they have a good impression on music since before they were born, and they continue to develop their love for music after they are born. At the age of 3 or 4, they have initially acquired the ability to appreciate music. Music can make children enjoy a deep love and make their mood full of joy. This kind of emotion will promote the development of the nervous system, adjust the blood flow and the activity function of the nervous system, and be conducive to the development of children's memory, understanding, imagination and thinking.
Many scholars have studied music, and found that the difference of musical tone, tone, rhythm, melody and sound quality will have different functions on human body, such as sedation, analgesia and mood regulation. Human emotion is a complex activity, which is closely related to hypothalamus and limbic lobe of cerebral cortex. Therefore, wonderful music can make children feel happy. This happy mood can effectively improve and adjust the physiological functions of cerebral cortex and limbic lobe, thus making the child's nervous system develop more perfectly. This role is incomparable to other education, which is also the reason why the works of those music masters have been spread all over the world and lasted for a long time.
Children's music activities include singing, music appreciation, rhythm instruments, music games and dancing. Through these activities, children have enhanced their ability to appreciate music and broadened their knowledge horizons, which has amazing effects not only for ordinary children, but also for mentally retarded children. There was once a child with "insufficient intelligence". Under the training of the school music teacher, his intelligence was greatly improved from listening to music to participating in percussion performance and dancing to music. This cannot but explain the great role of music in enlightening children's intelligence.
Some families have prepared musical instruments for their children, so that they can learn music at an early age. This kind of playing activity makes children's hands more coordinated. As Atlas, a medical professor at the University of California, pointed out after years of research: "People who learn to play musical instruments can promote the development of the two hemispheres of the brain because of the frequent movement of the nerve endings of the left and right fingers." Because when playing, vision, hearing, touch and the whole body must be in a coordinated and positive state, it can train children's thinking, attention and memory, and inspire imagination and creativity. Experiments show that children who study music learn other courses faster.
Thus, parents should not ignore the power of music. This kind of power may not be obvious in a short time, and finally, the hidden ability will eventually show up.
4. Music is the unity of physiological and psychological feelings
Music has the function of treating diseases because it can play a special role in people's psychological state and physical condition. This effect is achieved through psychological and physical effects.
In terms of psychological function, music can directly affect people's mood and behavior. We know that music has various beats and rhythms, and the human body also has various physiological rhythms, such as pulse and breathing. If they are well coordinated, music can adjust the physiological rhythm. Because the human body has obvious instinct to follow the rhythm of music, the speed of music rhythm can also drive the rhythm of body movements, and the "chant" in folk songs can reflect this effect. As a therapeutic method, the function of music can act on psychology through artistic appeal, which can not only enhance the disease resistance of human body, but also eliminate mental retardation. Music with distinctive rhythm can inspire people's emotions, such as military music and March music, which generally have a distinct sense of rhythm and can make people excited, excited and excited; Melodious music can make people feel quiet and relaxed. In addition, music can also affect people's mood through tone. This phenomenon has been noticed as early as ancient Greece. They believe that e is stable, d is warm, c is slow, b is sad, and a is high.
We know that people's emotional activities are closely related not only to the cerebral cortex, but also to the endocrine system, autonomic nervous system, hypothalamus and limbic system. The limbic system of the brain is the highest center that regulates and dominates the activities of human internal organs. In this way, music that makes people relaxed, happy, comfortable and cheerful can improve and strengthen the functions of cerebral cortex, cerebral limbic system and autonomic nervous system, so as to better control and enhance the normal activities of various internal organs and organs of the human body. However, music therapy does not simply get curative effect from appreciation, it is as