Word: musics
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...long as humans have pounded drums and plucked strings, listening to music has affected people's sense of well-being, lifting their spirits and - as new research shows - calming their nerves. Literally. According to a study at Cleveland Clinic, music can slow the neuronal firings deep within the brain during surgery designed to treat Parkinson's patients...
...people getting root canals merited a musical intervention, he thought, why not people undergoing brain surgery? Patients with conditions such as epilepsy, brain tumors, severe depression, and obsessive-compulsive and motor disorders like Parkinson's have to be awake for surgical procedures that often take several hours. Janigro and his team decided to use that wakeful period to determine whether music made the subjects' experience in the operating room less stressful...
...Music Mozart, Beethoven and Bach are my favorites as a piano player. I find modern music atonal, but a composer like Beethoven is soothing and melodious...
...hour-long musical comedy Glee, about a misfit show choir at an Ohio high school, has a different set of dramatic inspirations: High School Musical and teen soaps, which it throws in a blender with a squirt of pop-candy syrup and a generous dose of acid. But Glee is more than a send-up. Like its Fox sibling American Idol, it's equal parts laughing at and thrilling with; if it didn't also genuinely, earnestly love its music and its characters, it would become sour and unwatchable quick. Seeing a football team do a choreographed play to Beyonc...
...early stages have lasted a long time. E-readers have been around for more than a decade, but the devices weren't popular due to high cost, proprietary display formats and the reluctance of book publishers to sell digital versions of their best-selling titles. Now, just as digital music was driven into the mainstream by Apple's iPod and iTunes, Amazon's Kindle and online bookstore, which sells more than 350,000 titles, are proving there's a mass market for e-books. Total industry revenue from digital-book downloads has risen 149% this year, according to the Association...