Implications to the future of the study of music, the study of the relationship between music and applied medical science, and the study of the effects of brain function development in relationship to the study of music, may be directly influenced by the introduction of the new understanding of music as a
Mathematical Science of Structural Form & Motion (US Patent 7,314,991).

By altering the functional role of the alphabetic and numeric symbols in the very core of the new music education curriculum, massive amounts of information have been reduced to simplistic mathematical schematics of structural form and motion.

The many complicated theories of tonal relationship portrayed through conventional curriculum are significantly simplified to individual templates.  The application of this knowledge is rapidly accessed through subsequent patterns of structural form and motion applied to the musical instrument.

Research in the correlation between the study of music and child brain development has been harnessed to the performance of conventional music education curriculum.  Conventional curriculum produces a 15% rate of success in the ability to actually play the piano.  Many of the 15% success rate students cannot play the instrument without the written page.

During the Piano Logic Development Case Study program, one young boy showed dramatic acceleration in additional fields of study.  Over a six month period time, Adam's handwriting advanced from the worst in his class to the best in his class.  Adam's reading skills advanced from a 1st grade level to a 5th grade, 3rd month level.  Adam's mathematic scores advanced to the 95% in national testing.  Adam's mother states the only outside activity in Adam's everyday routine was the study of the Numeric Language of Music in the Piano Logic development case study program.

In an interview with famed neurologist Oliver Sacks (Wired mag. 10/07),  Mr. Sacks was asked  "Can playing music alter the brain?".  "Very strikingly" he replied."In musicians...there's more gray matter in the cerebellum". 

Research has shown the amount of gray matter in the brain is positively correlated with human intelligence (AndReason 1994).

The new music education curriculum alters not only the information presented to students but subsequently the way musical information is processed.  The ability to play the piano fluently from one end of the piano keyboard to the other is the first experience. More importantly, students completely comprehend the vocabulary of the language of music, an obvious prerequisite necessary to comprehend the vocabulary represented by written music notation.

Dr. Claudius Conrad, a third year surgical resident at Harvard Medical School, recently published a provocative paper suggesting that music may exert healing and sedative effects partly through a paradoxical stimulation of a growth hormone generally associated with stress rather than healing. The study was conducted in relation to patients who were exposed to hearing music rather than playing music.

The new understanding of music as a Mathematical Science of Structural Form and Motion opens the door to the potential development of computer programs which can quickly derive mathematical schematics of music compositions.  The study of the application of the mathematic algorithms applied to the field of medical science offers interesting implications to the potential future of medicine. 

Additionally, the field of research in the relationship between the study of music and brain development in children and adults may be significantly affected through the introduction of the new curriculum. 

Patty Carlson
Film Score Composer, Pianist, Author,
Music Education Research Analyst
(719)657-2983

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