does it also affect the brain and learning patterns of children and adults?
Some argue that Mozart’s music is not a magical key to learning but instead offers a systematic, rhythmic musical pattern that affects the brain ability to store and retrieve learning information (Ivanov and Geake, 2003). The majority of classical music pieces offer rhythms between sixty to eighty beats per minute which matches the rhythm of a resting human heart beet. Exposure to audio stimuli within that range may have an impact on how the brain stores information. A study of seventy-six students in Melbourne , Australia divided three test groups and exposed one of the groups to the music of Mozart, one to Bach and the third group to normal back ground noise during normal school hours. In addition, the students were given a musical background questionnaire to find out if they had taken musical lessons and which instruments to which they had been exposed. The groups which listened to Mozart and Bach performed better in school than those who were not exposed (Ivonov and Geake, 2003). “
