Billy Gil

C79-08-5809
English Composition
Annotated Bibliography
"20 Surprising, Science-Backed Health Benefits of Music." Greatist. Web. 28 Mar. 2016.
http://greatist.com/happiness/unexpected-health-benefits-music
The author of this article explains trough 20 noncommon facts why music is really beneficial to
your health, in a unique way that emphasizes the deep research and modern advances of
scientific research that made possible the findings exposed on this article. Also adding new
concepts and ideas to this topic, like on many facts exposed along the article that depicts how
music can significantly aid to lower stress and make us fell more relaxed through the entire day,
having as a result a better disposition towards work and more productivity without suffering
from the consequences of stress and anxiety.
Also, this article exposes an interesting approach to certain diseases such as cancer and stroke
patients, who can benefit from music in ways that were unheard of in the past, because music has
the ability to rewire certain brain connections and also has the ability to regenerate cells at a
faster pace, helping cancer sufferers to grow new cells and to combat malign cells by
strengthening the immune system, enabling the production of more white cells and providing a
sense of relief and relaxation to those in pain because of this disease, or many other diseases that
degenerates the immune system and weakens their sufferers.

Holmes, Lindsay. "5 Ways Music Improves Our Health." The Huffington Post.
TheHuffingtonPost.com. Web. 28 Mar. 2016.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/02/music-and-health-rock-on_n_6573132.html
This post provides a more personal experience about music and its health benefits, and also its
psychological effects. Her views about how music affects us are rather personal, but contain
scientific explanations and reasoning product of deep research about this topic, which gives a
insight of how is the experience of listening to music in any form of media, such as CDs, DVDs,
digital media as MP3 files or video, streaming services and radio services, and one of the most
powerful source of music distributions which is attending a concert or to listen to any musician
performing live.
Author Lindsay also exposes the medical and biological aspect of listening to calmer, soft and
music without lyrics, which can help to reduce anxiety, can lower blood pressure, can make you
more focused throughout the day, and based on neurological scientific research, listening to
music while traumatic events can significantly help to calm down the victims and to prevent the
archive of traumatic memories, or to lessen this occurrences.

"Mozart as Medicine: The Health Benefits of Music." James Clear. 2014. Web. 31 Mar.
2016.
http://jamesclear.com/music-therapy
This article give us a perspective of a real life case of music used as a healing method, or as an
aid for recovering from an illness or a traumatic injury, which also leads to psychological
problems such as paranoia, excessive fear and anxiety, all of which this person suffered until he
discovered the medicinal and psychological effects that music had on him.
This is the case of David Binanay, a world famous violinist who suffered from a sudden
gastrointestinal bleeding that almost cost him his life, then, his life started to go downhill
because of psychotic events that prevented him from having a normal life and doing regular tasks
such as going to a grocery store because of the extreme fear that he started to suffer because of
the accident, and even worse sporadic episodes of dementia and severe anxiety.
Suddenly, when everything was almost lost and in the bottom of his suffering, he started to play
the violin again a few hours a day, and without realizing this musical connection healed him in
just five years, removing all of his fears from his mind, and stopping the bleedings and
gastrointestinal problems, because as he describes the connection he made with the music,
specially classical music interpreted with a violin, elevate him to a conscious state of mind in
which he stopped from his daily tasks to meditate and rethink the causes of his disease, while
entering on a state of relaxation which remove his anxiety and fears.

"Scientists Find 15 Amazing Benefits Of Listening To Music." Lifehack RSS. Web. 31

Mar. 2016.
http://www.lifehack.org/317747/scientists-find-15-amazing-benefits-listening-music
LifeHack is a webpage often recognize for giving tips that prove to be useful, interesting, rare
and sometimes controversial that people can use on their everyday task to be more productive, to
avoid annoying tasks and improve their quality of life in general, in a creative and original way.
This combined with the fact that attracts many young people because of the content of their
called life hacks makes it a great page for enumerating facts that quickly resembles why the
music has a healing power, and in this case they also cover their arguments thanks to scientific
research, which is included in the title of the article: scientist find 15 amazing benefits of
listening to music.
These 15 facts include interesting content, such as the fact that music helps you to conciliate a
better sleep, have a better day, improving workout endurance and pain tolerance, reducing
depression, helping to enjoy and being more efficient on certain tasks such as driving, cooking or
working, improving brain functions and memory and raising IQ, academic performance and
concentration.

Martino, Joe. "7 Ways Music Benefits Your Heart, Brain & Health." CollectiveEvolution
RSS. Collective Evolution, 13 Mar. 2014. Web. 05 Apr. 2016.
http://www.collective-evolution.com/2014/03/13/seven-reasons-why-music-benefits-your-health/
This article gives us a different perspective about the benefits of music in the body, the brain, the
heart, and health in general, while being in a less formal format, which gives it a more
reachability to younger audiences, while transmitting the message in a compact and quick way.
By containing 7 facts about why the music is good for our health, is not too wordiness, but it
doesnt lack information either, because it shows how music can improve visual and verbal
skills, keep an aging brain healthy, make you happier, help patients who suffer from heart
diseases, help you sleep better, and help in the reduction of anxiety.
The author of this article, Joe Martino, gives a personal touch in the form of an introduction,
when saying Who doesnt love music? Certainly there are some of us, but for the most part
music is a big part of our lives. Whether its the music that we listen to on the way to work, while
we workout, or the music we hear in a symphony or film, it can bring up our moods, tell us a
story or even bring us down. Music has touched cultures all over the world since very early times
in human history. Have you ever wondered how music might affect our health?

Mercola, Dr. "The Health Benefits Of Listening To Music." Hungry For Change. 27 Apr.
2013. Web. 05 Apr. 2016.
http://www.hungryforchange.tv/article/the-health-benefits-of-listening-to-music
The author of this article starts by telling us why we should start being more music
aficionados with a number of reasons explaining the health benefits of listening to music.
The article focus on 4 aspects of music that enhances our health, being the first one related to
how the music prompts numerous brain changes linked to emotions and abstract decision
making, because of the activity triggered on the nucleus accumbens a part of our brain that
manages to release dopamine while exposed to the stimulus of music.
The second aspect gives us a perspective about why the music makes us feel more united,
because we might experience music in the same way. Study found that our brains react to the
same way to certain auditory stimulus.
The third aspect exposes how music relives anxiety better than drugs, and benefits premature
babies, which is a great example of the power that music has in us.
Finally, the last aspect of music exposed on this article is a number of reasons why music should
be part of our workouts, because it increases performance, endurance, stamina, concentration and
helps to have a better workout recovery.

Christ, Greatist Scott. "20 Surprising, Science-backed Health Benefits of Music." USA
Today. Gannett, 2013. Web. 05 Apr. 2016.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2013/12/17/health-benefits-music/4053401/
This article is really packed with information about the health benefits of music, by exposing 20
reasons why music is good for our health.
I talk about the fact that music ease pain, motivate people to bike harder, improve running
motivation and performance, increase workout endurance, speed up post-workout recovery,
improve sleep quality, help people eat less, enhance blood vessel function, reduce stress, induce a
meditative state, relieve symptoms of depression, elevate mood, improve cognitive performance,
help perform better in high-pressure situations, reduce anxiety as much as a massage, relax
patients before surgery, ease stress after surgery, elevate mood while driving, help cancer patients
manage stress and anxiety and ease recover in stroke patients.
The article is also backed up with scientific research, and a hard work of research that allows his
author to summarize the most important health benefits of listening to music in 20 powerful
facts.

Coleman, Naomi. "Why Listening to Music Is the Key to Good Health." Mail Online.
Associated Newspapers. Web. 05 Apr. 2016.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-137116/Why-listening-music-key-good-health.html
In this article, author Naomi Coleman exposes how scientific research has come with a number
of reasons why listening to music is key to maintain a good health, because of the positive
impact music have on our bodies, it summarizes it into three main health benefits and its
scientific explanations.
First, she talks about how music relieves chronic back pain, because when listening to slow
rhythms, our blood pressure and heartbeat slows down, which allows the muscles of our neck
and back to soften, allowing the relief of chronic back pain.
Second, she talks about how music improves our workout, because of the release of endorphins
in our body, which gives a sense of relief and helps to maintain longer exercises, and this is
especially true when listening to upbeat melodies present in genres such as hip-hop and dance.
Finally, she explains how music helps with memory loss, because music greatly stimulates an
area of the brain located next to the memory region, and every genre of music available is good
for this because it depends of the patient preference, being more responsive to genres they like,
so this phenomenon is versatile, and can help many people that suffers from amnesia, Alzheimer
and diseases related to short-term memory loss and long-term memory loss.