Music and Hormones

Garcı́a-Falgueras, Alicia

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“…Originally, the word music derives from Greek mousiké [téchnē] that means the “technique of Muses.” In its expression it combines harmony, melody, rhythm, pitch, meter, timbre, etc, to create psychoanimic states with hormones, steroids, and other metabolic endogen compounds contributing to those psychological effects. 2 And, in its compositive and interpretative dimension, music also has many complexities and intrincated brain mechanisms which are still unknown in their whole complexity.…”

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The Spanish Composer Manuel de Falla and His Eyes: The Musical Brain

Garcı́a-Falgueras

Swaab

2021

J Exp Neurosci

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Manuel de Falla was a Spanish musician of the XIXth and XXth centuries who had international recognition likely due to his musical fusion talent. His knowledge about Spanish musical traditions gave to his early compositions a new and fresh intellectual interpretation for the typical Spanish folk music. However, in the middle of his musical career, he suffered a strange disease of his eyes named recurrent acute iridocyclitis. This eye flushing is caused by an inflammation of 2 structures of the anterior pole of the ocular globe, the iris, and the ciliary body. It is usually a symptom of another disease and it causes many psychological impairments and disabilities (severe eye pain in bright light, blurry vision, headache, stress for organization (orderliness), and depression in some cases). This soreness of his eyes had an effect over Falla’s compositions and marked an inflection point in his line of musical creations. Eyes in music have been so relevant in another composers and musicians throughout history.

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The Spanish Composer Manuel de Falla and His Eyes: The Musical Brain

Garcı́a-Falgueras

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2021

J Exp Neurosci

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Possible Gender Differences in Classical Music, Flamenco and Fado

Garcı́a-Falgueras

2023

J Exp Neurosci

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Music is an art form and cultural activity whose language, the sounds and silences, is organized in time with logic and sensitivity. Music as a whole is the result of an ancestral nonverbal and international mode of human expression and communication. The primitive and former mother-child bonding might be highly influenced and modulated by the music and singing with their babies. Musicality and music imply two different sides of the same coin, where the former is based on the human capacity to produce the latter. Some theories about evolution suggest music might have an adaptive advantage for humans in society. Historical examples of different styles in music point out that if any allusion or reminder about gender in music might happen most probably occurs in folk non always written pagan or secular music with lyrics or voice. This genre of music usually tells about traditional gender differences in jobs, habits, lifestyles, etc., and has a clear preference for male musicians, while on the contrary, classical music usually does not have a clear gender difference in meaning, and instruments are played by both. In this text, I explore and empirically describe, neuroanatomically or functionally, some examples of different genres of music and brain differences, related to music and dance. Three different genres of music (Classical music, Fado and Flamenco) are explored in an attempt to elucidate some reasons for possible gender differences.

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Music and Hormones

Cited by 2 publications

References 16 publications

The Spanish Composer Manuel de Falla and His Eyes: The Musical Brain

The Spanish Composer Manuel de Falla and His Eyes: The Musical Brain

Possible Gender Differences in Classical Music, Flamenco and Fado

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