Sunday, June 12, 2011
Animals and Classical Music
I would like to share some experiances that I have had with animals and Classical Music. I wanted to see what kind of response I would get out of animals when I played music to them. Classical (barouqe, classical, romantic) era music was the only music that made the animals have any response and some hymns too. I didn't play a variaty of music, but the music I could. When other music was played besides the above, there seems to be no response or a definite one at least. But when Beethoven, J.S. Bach, Brahms, Mozart, Handel, or Hymns, the animals just layed down and poked thier ears up as though to listen to the music activly. Someone I know had a sheep that just arrived to it's new home one day at this persons house. The sheep was distressed and bleating very much and was pacing it's stall anxiously. I suggested to them to play some classical music for it and see what happens. When the music was played the sheep did not make another noise and layed down and seemed calm. It would walk around abit, but mostly lay. I witnessed it first hand, it was remarkable. If you are wondering, the music played for the sheep what Handel's Water Music Suites. Handel wrote that music for the King of England to help him calm down and to think and to remember better when he was feeling his resposibility of his possition very keenly of being the king. I have a couple of older post that talk about Handel's Water Music titled, "Handel and Healing", and "Words and Water Music" if you would like to learn more.
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