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New Research on Music in the Work Place

April 26, 2011

Dr. Anneli Haake spent the last 6 years studying the effect of music on office workers in the UK; her results were published in the academic journal Musicae Scientiae in March earlier this year. For those of us not familiar with reading large scientific texts, we asked Annelli to give us a lay person’s overview [...]

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Boys Bedtime Music – 8 minutes 8 seconds

August 6, 2009

First piece of music2work2 from 2001 – Piano lullaby to get small children to sleep.[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Getting two energetic children calmed down for bedtime is a challenge that most parents would recognize. Like many things that help, we stumbled upon the calming effect by accident; I had been working on this [...]

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Identification – 14 Minutes 13 Seconds

May 6, 2009

Soothing Strings & Piano, written to assist information assimilation $1.99 Download Now This was written to accompany a particular event concerned with identification. Here is the reasoning: Objective: Enhance the delivery of visual and verbal information through the creation of an auditory environment that stimulates the receiver’s awareness without distracting them from the core [...]

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Mars Lasar – “Amy’s Lullaby”

September 7, 2008

“Amy’s Lullaby” by Mars Lasar, as the name might suggest, is a very sweet song. It is piano driven and has a lovely melody. It is calming and soothing. The sound of the music box brings back memories of one that was given to me as a child. I loved to play it over and [...]

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Guitar Music At Its Best

January 14, 2008

Do you enjoy guitar music? If so, you will probably want to check out the music of one of music2work2′s MySpace friends, Nello Angelucci[61]. He has a long history of studying under some of the music greats- first classical guitar, then jazz, and also Flamenco Guitar. He now lives in Japan; his music is classified [...]

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Laura Sullivan

November 5, 2007

A relatively new MySpace friend of music2work2 is Laura Sullivan. Laura Sullivan is a pianist and composer of Classical/Acoustic/Ambient music. She began to play the piano at age 4 and began composing her own music at age 8. By 18 years of age, she had composed 6 feature length musicals, along with other works. All [...]

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Center for Music Medicine

October 30, 2007

music2work2 is based on the premise that music is good for you – it is beneficial in many ways. In fact, we researched this idea and found many articles that deal with studies and reports supporting the benefit of music. One of our newer MySpace friends believes in the benefits of music also. The Center [...]

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Joe Odea

September 12, 2007

One of music2work2′s MySpace friends is Joe Odea, from Tucson, Arizona. He is a solo pianist; his music is classified as Classical/Acoustic/Other. His music is melodic, of a moderate /slow tempo and very calming. The four samples available to hear on his MySpace page are all lovely pieces. I like August a lot, but my [...]

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