This Miscellany No. 18 titled the Deep Well of Harmony Part I. I want to detail and comment on Jacob Collier’s video about harmony. In this, he talks about harmony on five different levels spanning from a young child’s idea of what harmony is all the way to a discussion with Herbie Hancock. Jacob Collier discusses the five levels of harmony https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRkgK4jfi6M Chanuka, Oh Chanukah! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxH0xF84h_0 Alpin Hong, professional pianist https://alpinhong.com/ Contact me at themagicofmusicms@gmail.com Post musical memes on my facebook page titled The Magic of Music

This Miscellany No. 18 titled the Deep Well of Harmony Part I. I want to detail and comment on Jacob Collier’s video about harmony. In this, he talks about harmony on five different levels spanning from a young child’s idea of what harmony is all the way to a discussion with Herbie Hancock. Jacob Collier discusses the five levels of harmony https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRkgK4jfi6M Chanuka, Oh Chanukah! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxH0xF84h_0 Contact me at themagicofmusicms@gmail.com Post musical memes on my facebook page titled The Magic of Music

This is miscellany No. 17 and it details the fact that music can rewire our brain. ABC news Story https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiJ9X_wLSWM Musicophilia by Dr. Oliver Sacks https://www.amazon.com/Musicophilia-Tales-Music-Revised-Expanded/dp/1400033535/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2AJQ1IUFNSU75&keywords=musicophilia+oliver+sacks&qid=1676647332&sprefix=musicopphil%2Caps%2C146&sr=8-1 Melodic Intonation Therapy https://www.incadence.org/post/what-is-melodic-intonation-therapy-and-how-does-it-work CBS Sunday Morning Story https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_kTv2t2hlY Contact me at themagicofmusicms@gmail.com Post musical memes on my facebook page titled The Magic of Music

This is Miscellany number 16, The Voyager Project. A team of scientists were unable to define and describe humanity without the inclusion of music. If that is true, then why do some in society think our content area is an extra, or fluff? What you teach is vital to the very definition of humanity. NASA’s webpage dedicated to the Voyager Project https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/ YouTube link to the music on the record https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z694TLir3qg&list=PL4D51474AB7BE5595&index=4 Contact me at themagicofmusicms@gmail.com Post musical memes on my facebook page titled The Magic of Music

This is Miscellany No. 15, Zimmer and the Music of Dune, Part II. I will discuss several comments made during this video clip. Highlighted will be the creative aspects of not sounding like a European orchestra and that the wanted to write a film score as if he was 13 years old. Most importantly, I want to talk about the two aspects of music education of Aesthetic and Praxial. I believe this video expresses both camps beautifully. YouTube Video, “How Dune Composer Hans Zimmer Created the Oscar-Winning Score. This was produced by Vanity Fair. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93A1ryc-WW0&list=PLyfiqoDxwOQUgI1_27ejrGKulqv1qoLT2&index=2 Konnakol Indian Drum Language - Produced by Rajna Swaminathan, Ganavya Doraiswamy, & Miles Okazaki https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x89xXKywR4o Contact me at themagicofmusicms@gmail.com Post musical memes on my facebook page titled The Magic of Music

This is Miscellany No. 14, Zimmer and the Music of Dune, Part I. I will discuss the first thought of Hans Zimmer on this video. Will society really progress beyond the need of a “regular beat” to enjoy music? YouTube Video, “How Dune Composer Hans Zimmer Created the Oscar-Winning Score. This was produced by Vanity Fair. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93A1ryc-WW0&list=PLyfiqoDxwOQUgI1_27ejrGKulqv1qoLT2&index=2 Flamenco Dancing with Melina Jajjar (dancer) and Yazan Ibrahim on guitar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIBCd4zmPDA Dave Brubeck – Take Five https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmDDOFXSgAs Contact me at themagicofmusicms@gmail.com Post musical memes on my facebook page titled The Magic of Music

This is Miscellany, No. 13, Brain Plasticity Through Music. Although music is valuable simply because it is, there is also value in how it changes our brain. Like magic, music will cause us to be better at a multitude of tasks and even social settings. Webster’s Online Dictionary  https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/plasticity Project Encephalon • Website  https://www.projectencephalon.org/ • Music  https://www.projectencephalon.org/post/music-and-brain-plasticity#:~:text=Music%20and%20brain%20plasticity%20Neuroplasticity%20is%20the%20ability,in%20patients%20with%20stroke%2C%20dementia%2C%20Parkinson%E2%80%99s%2C%20epilepsy%2C%20etc. TED-Ed, How Playing an Instrument Benefits Your Brain • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0JKCYZ8hng Contact me at themagicofmusicms@gmail.com Post musical memes on my facebook page titled The Magic of Music

This is Miscellany No. 12, From Appreciation to Admiration. When we learn about how music is put together, and its specifics, we can magically move from an appreciation of the music to admiration of the art. Sir Georg Solti and the Chicago Symphony performing Beethoven Symphony No. 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pj2neof3MIs B.B. King performing live at the Monteux Music festival in 1993 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fk2prKnYnI Hans Zimmer and the score to the movie Dune https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93A1ryc-WW0 Contact me at themagicofmusicms@gmail.com Post musical memes on my facebook page titled The Magic of Music

This Miscellany No. 11 and it details how music creates unique communities in a school. Have you noticed how people become friends in your room even though they share nothing in common outside of music. This is magical and we need to talk about this to those who should be stakeholders in our programs. Contact me at themagicofmusicms@gmail.com Post musical memes on my facebook page titled The Magic of Music Willie Nelson, On the Road Again https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBN86y30Ufc

This miscellany No. 10 describes the Reuben’s Tube. A device that visually shows standing waves. There are several YouTube videos discussed in this miscellany. Take time to watch these as they can prove to be helpful in understanding standing waves with nodes, antinode, and amplitude. Jost Fischer demos a guitar string plucked in slow motion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNNQvG0jWtw Professor Boyd Edwards describes standing waves using a slinky https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k2TuJfNQ9s Jeff Regester describing the nodes at various hertz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWekXMZJ2zM Steve Mould uses the Reuben’s Tube to describe resonance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dihQuwrf9yQ jbrphy demonstrates several songs including Journey and Für Elise https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpCquUWqaYw Contact me at themagicofmusicms@gmail.com Post your favorite memes about music on the Facebook page, which is also, The Magic of Music

This Miscellany No. 8 details that magical moment we have when music causes us to get chills. The technical term for this is frisson, but we call them goosebumps. The episode is titled Gäsehaut because I have another German story about this and this is their term for frisson. The first piece I played was two excerpts from Joaguin Rodrigos’ Concierto de Aranjuez for Guitar and Orchestra. This is in the second movement. This is Pepe Romero performing with the Danish National Symphony. Listen to the entire concerto, it’s amazing, but to find the excerpts I gave you need to wait for the second movement beginning at marker 6:59. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oxH-7VklBI This is the Las Vegas Youth Orchestra playing Greensleeves https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJqrM5b7Ykw The is the clip from Lion King https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhZ0TKdgJGg Brain connectivity reflects human aesthetic responses to music Matthew E. Sachs, Robert J. Ellis, Gottfried Schlaug, Psyche Loui Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, Volume 11, Issue 6, June 2016, Pages 884–891, https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsw009

Some argue that the value of music is in the doing of music. This has been called musicing and it is rooted in a philosophy called Praxialism. Imaging that, doing music is fun. David Elliott explains the term musicing http://www.davidelliottmusic.com/praxial-music-education/music-and-listening-in-praxial-music/#:~:text=Praxialism%20is%20all%20about%20the%20development%20of%20reflective,musicing%20and%20listening%2C%20and%20in%20relation%20to%20recordings. Contact me at themagicofmusicms@gmail.com

Music engages us in three domains, which are cognition, psychomotor, and affective. It is the only subject that easily allows us to be in all three at the same time. I mentioned Florence Price’s piece Adoration. Originally written for organ but it works well for string orchestra. Here is a wonderful performance of this beautiful and peaceful work by the Nova Orchester of Wien.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1OoLYJytc4 This is a good website that concisely describes the three domains of learning.  https://thesecondprinciple.com/instructional-design/threedomainsoflearning/ For a moment, I slipped into using the word mode. I meant to stay with domain, but hopefully that didn’t throw you too much. Contact me at themagicofmusicms@gmail.com Post your favorite memes about music on the Facebook page, which is also, The Magic of Music

This miscellany explains how the harmonic series and sympathetic vibrations are magical. It also details how and why you should both experience this and teach this to music students.

Harmony can change your disposition and that is magical. Contact me at themagicofmusicms@gmail.com Post your favorite memes about music on the Facebook page, which is also, The Magic of Music Part of Pentatonix’s YouTube video of Amazing Grace, My Chains are Gone is used in this miscellany. Listen to the entire video, it is mind blowing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Obp-9BEZe1c    

This miscellany demonstrates how rhythm is real magic. Queen, We Will Rock You https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tJYN-eG1zk

Melody is memorable and this is partly why it is magical. Contact me at themagicofmusicms@gmail.com Post your favorite memes about music on the Facebook page, which is also, The Magic of Music Bobby McFerrin, Don’t Worry, Be Happy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-diB65scQU This little gem has Robin Williams in it as well. Fifty Nifty https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uv5VhuUfwC4 Clip from the Sundance Film Festival featuring Henry and a talk from Dr. Oliver Sacks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HLEr-zP3fc    

This miscellany explores the beat as magic. The beat must be established first and it is good that the beat is easy to feel and fun to move to.

This is the inaugural podcast of the Magic of Music. I introduce who I am, how I came up with the podcast name, and why I am doing this project.