Classroom activity: Melodic Marvels

This issue's activity explores the nature of auditory illusion and hallucination, the effect of music on our minds and bodies, and the potential for music in medicine.

Melodic Marvels is a series of student activities relating to the content of ‘Big Picture: Music, Mind and Medicine’ [PDF 2.14MB].

Students will listen to various mp3 files within the online audio library and carry out relevant exercises.

There are five classroom exercises to choose from, covering the following areas:

• moving and feeling
• auditory illusions
• music and healing
• music and learning
• auditory hallucinations.

These are designed to be flexible so you can pick and choose which activities to do, or do them all.

Teacher notes [Word 92KB] provide background information and explain how to run these exercises in the classroom.

The activity sheet [PDF 172KB] guides learners through the various exercises.

The homework sheet [PDF 100KB] contains an exercise exploring how music influences mood.