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The Magic of Music is a podcast about why music is so important to us.
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
The Magic of Music
The Magic of Music is a podcast about why music is so important to us.
