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Embouchures
Proper embouchure is fundamental to playing any wind instrument. The combined arrangement of the lips, teeth, and tongue, as well as facial muscles, shape the mouth into playing position, control tone and pitch, and direct the stream of air into the instrument. Embouchure is the first thing new players work to develop, and it remains crucial whenever they play.
Listen Up! Hearing Protection is for Everyone
Speech pathologist Emily Crow spreads the word that hearing protection is important for everyone.
Musicians Benefit from Targeted Massage Therapies
There are a number of myths surrounding arthritis.
Musicians, like athletes, should know how to treat tendonitis, so an acute case doesn’t become chronic, impacting your ability to play.
Researchers have conducted experiments that show how quickly brains respond to music.
Artist, composer, and koto player Miya Masaoka has developed a laser version of the traditional Japanese stringed instrument. The Laser Koto features a tripod-mounted laser array that Masaoka plays by passing her hands through the beams, triggering a variety of sampled and processed sounds from a computer.
Surgery Music Lessens Need for Sedatives
Patients listening to their favorite music required much less sedation during surgery than did patients who listened to white noise or operating room noise, according to a Yale School of Medicine study published in the journal Anesthesia & Analgesia.
Drumming Up Interest in Therapeutic Music Making
With growing evidence linking job stress to illness, finding an effective means of stress management has become a challenging international endeavor. Now a Japanese study led by Masatada Wachi, with help from US researcher Barry Bittman, MD, is showing how recreational music making can be used as an effective remedy for workplace stress.
Music Education Resolution Passes
Members of Congress recently discussed the benefits of school-based music education for children, resulting in the unanimous passage of House Concurrent Resolution 121.
Making a Difference with Music
Jourdan Urbach, 15, of Roslyn Heights, New York, is a home-schooled sophomore and a student at the Juilliard School’s Pre-College Division in New York City, and he is using his violin skills to raise more than $1 million for national charities focused on neurological illnesses.
Making Music Hones Language Skills
Mastering a musical instrument improves the way the human brain processes parts of spoken language, joint research from Stanford University, MIT, and Rutgers shows.
Music Therapists Turn to Singing
Two studies recently published in the British Journal of Music Therapy suggest that singing has great potential for the field of music making therapy.
