Showing posts with label arrhythmia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label arrhythmia. Show all posts

Monday 16 February 2015

Music And Heartbeat Disorder

Music And Heartbeat Disorder.
A heartbeat fray may have influenced parts of composer Ludwig van Beethoven's greatest works, researchers say. "His music may have been both figuratively and physically heartfelt," theme co-author Dr Joel Howell, a professor of internal prescription at the University of Michigan Medical School, said in a university news broadcast release. The unheedful composer has been linked with numerous health woes, and historians have speculated that the composer may have had an arrhythmia - an unsystematized heartbeat.

Now, a team that included a musicologist, cardiologist and medical historian suggest that the rhythms of undoubted sections of Beethoven's most renowned pieces may reflect the irregular rhythms of his heart. "When your consideration beats irregularly from heart disease, it does so in some predictable patterns. We think we perceive some of those same patterns in his music. The synergy between our minds and our bodies shapes how we experience the world.