From the blog

• January 22, 2019 The Moon, Music, Rhythm...

  The Moon and Universe…

  Our Universe Mother holds us in her warm darkness, the moon lights our hearts like a warm glowing candle, the stars sparkle with brilliance, twinkling laughter of joy, come home all to the beauty, warmth of the dark night, let the vibrations roll into our very being with a rhythm of wellness, health, connection to you, me, all that is.  Universe music wrap me in your blanket of knowing and peace…  rhythm child sleep, home in the velvety darkness… -  Anonymous

   

  The recent lunar eclipse drew the attention of the entire world this week.  What is it about the Moon?  The Moon’s rhythm and vibrations tie to our very existence, our health and feelings… 

   

   “All life exists within a sea of vibration…  rhythm is fundamental to all of life… many aspects of human behavior and physiology is correlated with the phases of the moon.  Our lives contain a seeming infinity of rhythms… rhythms of the breath, heartbeat, and brain are intimately related to our emotions, thoughts, and psychospiritual state.”  

   

  “Rhythm is the fundamental characteristic of music. In frequencies, timbres, and the passage of beats through time to form rhythms, music is an apt metaphor for this carrier of life-information. And the notion that music can touch the core of our being and is as old as human consciousness.”

   

  “A person does not hear sound only through the ears; he hears sound through every pore of his body.”

   

  “Rhythms show up in many aspects of life. They affect the way we feel day by day or throughout the seasons. They affect our moods and attitudes deeply.”  life is intimately connected to a wide variety of natural rhythms.”

   

  “And just as music can have the capacity to touch our deepest sentiments and evoke feelings across the entire spectrum of human emotion, as scientists begin to understand the language of health, emotions, and heart rate variability and begin to decode the language of cellular vibrations and biofield information, it may be possible to develop new forms of healing. As healers have used music for therapeutic purposes for centuries, might cell-music or EMF ‘biomusic’ be further developed as a kind of medicine?:  This way of healing can be studied and understood by studying the music of one's own life, by studying the rhythm of the pulse, the rhythm of the beating of the heart and of the head… “   Life Rhythm as a Symphony of Oscillatory Patterns: Electromagnetic Energy and Sound Vibration Modulates Gene Expression for Biological Signaling and Healing, Muehsam & Ventura Glob Adv Health Med. 2014 Mar.

   

  Music as a new branch of medicine?  What do you think?

   

  We’re ready to help you at Golden Music to find an instrument to enhance healthy rhythms… or please come around, be part of our community, join us for a good long chat about music…

• January 13, 2019 What Is Music?

  Golden Music staff works everyday with musicians and families and friends of musicians, we often think about the nature of music.  What's it's purpose, what is it exactly?

  A very interesting article came across my desk today*.  

  Flutes were discovered made from bone found in Germany, the earliest recorded instruments placed at about 200,000 years old, meaning our species as we are developed today were music makers.  What was music's role in our ancestors' lives?  What is it in our lives, in our community?

  Music establishes COMMUNITY.

  A mother humming to her child (probably came before language), ancestral men dancing and singing before a hunt.  Researchers state “By establishing such a bond between individuals, music created not only the family, but society itself...  Our Ancestors' lives depended on the hunt and used music in the ceremonies. It paved the way for us to communicate with each other and to share emotions."
  
  As centuries went by, Music's ability to communicate emotions was precisely what made it persist after the development of language.  On top of that, there is an instinctive function of music--to make us feel good.  Songs activate the frontal lobe, produce dopamine and act on the cerebellum, which is able to “synchronize itself” to the rhythm of the music, which causes pleasure. “It’s like a toy for the brain,” that also stimulates creativity.  For years, we've been quoting the influence of music study on the develop of children, that's old news.

  What's so interesting is this research that music is about bonding and communication.  We strive to create music community thrives on the bonds we develop.  We have four community groups right now as well as our private lesson program, where wonderful music mentors work with developing musicians.  I would also say that we strive to bond with you when you come to our store, as we discuss your music needs and dreams.  

  Golden Music supports your music connections!

  All data for this blog came from:  https://www.bbvaopenmind.com/en/what-is-the-purpose-of-music/  Joana Oliviera

  

   

• January 02, 2019 Happy New Year!

  Golden Music has many goals and plans to continue in our mission to support the music community in 2019.  Primarily, we are striving to build our music school to be the place where music education is available for everyone wanting to learn.  We are improving our physical environment with new furniture and fixtures.   Our web page is getting a makeover which will bring out the many talents of our teachers to you.  Our wonderful staff are digging in deeper to their roles in the store and we see amazing talent and devotion coming through daily.  As an owner, I strive to bring balance to my life and all those involved with our wonderful work and a healthy lifestyle.  Best wishes to you and your family and friends!  Love to all,  Mary

  

• November 13, 2018 Christmas Events Shaping Up to Be Full of Interesting Music and Presentations!

  Our second annual Christmas Season full of events is planned and ready for the season to roll in!  Starting on November 17th with another great Uke event, then November 24th with the Non Traditional Music Day.  We are planning to feature house accordion teacher Joanne Birsa with selections from German folk repertoire, Rebecca Moritzky demonstrating the #guzheng and Gregory Walker on electric strings.  In the month of December we are planning:

  Dec 1st - Contemporary Strings Day 🎻
  Dec 8th - Ukulele Day & Guitar Days 
  Dec 15th - Guitar Days
  Dec 22nd - Ukulele Day & Guitar Days