Some music has been proved effectively to mitigate anxiety, beneficial to reading. However, little was known on its influence of reading behaviors and outcomes. Thanks to the advance of e-book technology, it becomes possible to track reading rate and outcomes in a real-time manner by the underlying mobile devices. This study intends to examine the effects of the Mozart piece K.448 (sonata for t...

An extensive set of measurements was made in and around Mexico City as part of the MILAGRO (Megacity Initiative: Local and Global Research Observations) experiments in March 2006. Simulations with the Model for Ozone and Related Chemical Tracers, version 4 (MOZART4), a global chemical transport model, have been used to provide a regional context for these observations and assist in their interp...

Thus far, we have been automatizing the time-span analysis of Jackendoff and Lehrdahl’s Generative Theory of Tonal Music (GTTM). We have also introduced the distance between two time-span trees and verified by an experiment that the distance was properly supported by the psychological similarity. In this paper, we synthesize a new piece of music using the algebraic operations on timespan trees,...

Thirty-five year-old Amadeus Mozart died in Vienna after an acute illness that lasted only 15 days but no consensus has been reached on the cause of his death. From many letters written by his farther it is almost certain that he experienced at least three episodes of acute rheumatic fever attack in his childhood, and a relapse of rheumatic fever was suggested to have killed Mozart, although de...

There is much to admire in Patrik Juslin’s winding article [1], so one is hesitant to dwell on a few shortcomings. Juslin has taken on the ambitious task of bringing “aesthetic” emotions into his previous work on music-related affect. However, there are a number of philosophical issues that are dealt with hastily. For philosophers, the article often conflates normative and prescriptive argument...

In August 1969, the music documentary series Workshop (1964–78) focused on electronic in a 55-minute-long film titled ‘The Same Trade as Mozart’. Produced and directed by David Buckton, included interviews with composers Karlheinz Stockhausen, Tristram Cary Justin Connolly; BBC Radiophonic staff Desmond Briscoe, Cain John Baker, Workshop’s founder, Daphne Oram; Peter Zinovieff, director of EMS ...

Reports that exposure to music causes benefits in nonmusical domains have received widespread attention in the mainstream media. Such reports have also influenced public policy. The so-called "Mozart effect" actually refers to two relatively distinct phenomena. One concerns short-term increases in spatial abilities that are said to occur from listening to music composed by Mozart. The other ref...