This study investigates how background music influences learning with respect to three different theoretical approaches. Both the Mozart effect as well as the arousal-mood-hypothesis indicate that background music can potentially benefit learning outcomes. While the Mozart effect assumes a direct influence of background music on cognitive abilities, the arousal-mood-hypothesis assumes a mediati...

The purpose of the article is to reveal artistic images in "The Little Prince" ballet performance by Radu Poklitar with music V. A. Mozart and Ukrainian lullabies performed Maria Pylypchak. methodology work based on cultural analysis elements musicological analysis. provides familiarity performance, production which took place theatre stage. Based synthesis obtained research results, regulariti...

We explore a possibility that the 'Mozart effect' points to a fundamental cognitive function of music. Would such an effect of music be due to the hedonicity, a fundamental dimension of mental experience? The present paper explores a recent hypothesis that music helps to tolerate cognitive dissonances and thus enabled accumulation of knowledge and human cultural evolution. We studied whether th...

The most perfunctory survey of the biographical literature devoted to Mozart – from the late eighteenth century to the present day – reveals an avid curiosity into the composer’s life history, perhaps a compulsive tendency to situate and contextualise his music. Although Mozart’s music might be clearly intelligible without knowledge of either his life or his eighteenth-century environment – twi...

Recently, development of peer-to-peer (P2P) applications has been giving a paramount attention mostly due to their attractive features such as decentralization and self-organization. Providing the programmer with the “right” platform for developing such applications became a challenge. In this paper we describe the functionality of P2PS, a platform for developing P2P applications in Mozart. The...