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Mr. Abel Cadias
English 10 / 10:04
June 21, 2016
Can Music Improve Students Memory?
All types of music help improve students memory because the important factor
was frequency. The purpose of this research report was to argue how any type of music
helps improve students memory. The importance of this research report is to prove that
all types of music can help high school students improve their memory. The pieces of
information found in this research report were based on five sources. First, the article
entitled Frequencies, music and transformation showed how brain has been affected
by brain wave frequencies. Second, Laurence O'Donnell III, a musician from Perth,
Scotland in his article called Music and the brain talked about how power of music
affects students memory. Third, the article entitled How Music Affects Us and
Promotes Health explained music increases learning, intelligent and also IQ by
eMedExpert. Next, Belle Beth Cooper in her article called How Music Affects and
Benefits Your Brain identified kind of music that affected students brain in different
emotion. The last, Teecj in his article called listen to music stimulate memory
explained music related to brain.
How Brain Wave Frequencies Affect Brain
According to Mind Power MP3.com, it found the way that help students memory
to be learning better, relaxation etc. It shows the result of different frequencies. The
first is Beta frequency. Beta frequency (13Hz to 30Hz) improves alertness. It controls
the subconscious. Beta frequency (33Hz) improves awareness and super sensitivity.
Beta frequency (35Hz) awakening of mid-chakras and balance of the chakras. Beta

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frequency (38Hz) endorphin release. The second is Alpha Frequency. Alpha Frequency
(8Hz to 13Hz) peaceful and relaxed. Alpha Frequency (10Hz) positive and negative
emotion. Alpha Frequency (10.5) restored the body. The third is Theta frequency. Theta
Frequency (4Hz to 7Hz) improves absent-minded. Theta Frequency (6.3Hz) enhances
learning quicker and improve memory. Theta Frequency (7.0Hz) improves a psychic
incision. The fourth is Delta Frequency. Delta Frequency (1Hz to 3Hz) improves deep
and non-REM sleep. Delta Frequency (1.0Hz) motivates the growth hormone. Delta
Frequency (3.4Hz) sleeps like a dog.
How Music Affects Memory
According to a study conducted at Heriot-Watt University, it showed the
emotional when students are listening to music. For the Blue fans, people are imagery,
sociable, polite and alert. Jazz fans, people feel like the same with Blue fans. Classical
music fans, people are alert, pride, imagery and self-observer. Rap fans, people have
high self-esteem and outgoing. Opera fans are proud, creative and politeness. Country
and western fans are hardworking. Reggae fans are not only proud, creative, not
hardworking but also politeness. Dance fans are creative and outgoing but not
politeness. Indie fans have low self-esteem, are not polite and also not hard working.
Rock or heavy metal fans are same as the Indie fans, but rock fans are polite and alert.
Chart pop fans have high self-esteem, are polite, but chart pop fans are not creative and
not alert. The last fans are Soul fans. Soul fans have high self-esteem, are imagery and
also alert. Generally, the fans who listen to music are feel like high self-esteem, alert,
imagery and also outgoing (Cooper, 2013).
How Power of Music Affects Students Memory
The power of music affects memory. For a pattern of the Mozart music is about
60 beats per minute beat pattern. It stimulate right brain and left brain at the same time.

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And it also helps brain to improve learning and memory. According to the centre of
new discoveries in learning. Dr.George Lozanov is a popular Bulgarian psychologist.
Dr.George Lozanov layout a plan to teach a foreign languages. Students learn about
vocabulary and phases for a day. The average of students that Dr.George Lozanov kept
was 92%. System of Dr.George Lozanov using a classical music instruments which
have 60 beats per minute pattern. The result, Dr.George Lozanov had verified that
classical music instruments can recognize accurate rate of approximately 100%
(O'Donnell, n.d.).
Music enhances intelligence and learning for some types of brain function such
as reading and literacy skills, spatial-temporal reasoning, mathematic abilities and
emotional. The reason for music enhances intelligence and learning are due to listening
to music or playing an instruments can actually make people learn better but, musical
training is better effected than listen to music (eMedExpert, 2016).
Conclusion
This research report aimed to find out how any type of music helps improve
students memory. This research report concluded that brain wave frequencies and
power of music can affect part of memory in the brain to be better. The kind of music
gets the different emotion such as Rock makes person feel alert and polite, Jazz makes
person feel like imagery and sociable and brain work because music have different
frequencies. Classical and Mozart help improve students memory the most because the
frequencies of them are low frequencies which mean it is similar to someone who
meditate, so students brain work better. The research report recommends further
studies on how can listening to music cure disease like cancer.

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References
Cooper, B. (November 22, 2013). How Music Affects and Benefits Your Brain.
Retrieved (May 25, 2016) from http://lifehacker.com/how-music-affects-thebrain-and-how-it-benefits-you-1469597259
O'Donnell, L. (n.d.). Music and the brain. Retrieved (May 24, 2016) from
http://www.cerebromente.org.br/n15/mente/musica.html
How Music Affects Us and Promotes Health. (February 18, 2016). Retrieved
May 24, 2016 from http://www.emedexpert.com/tips/music.shtml
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Frequencies, music and transformation: How our audios work. (n.d.). Retrieved
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