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Rock Out or Rhapsody? Flower Power with the Right Playlist
Do you always lament that the flowers in the living room are not growing vigorously and the foliage plants on the balcony are listless? Maybe you have tried your best, watering, fertilizing, pest-proofing, pruning them regularly… but these flowers and plants don’t appreciate it. If I tell you that these flowers may be because the noise of your TV and stereo is too loud, or because the foliage plants have been living on the balcony for a long time and are too stuffy, they cannot “appreciate” them. Music is naturally delicate, sickly, and droopy. Do you believe it? This is no joke! Using music to treat plant diseases has long…
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Exploring the Hidden Energies and Themes Within the “Fifth Symphony Family” – Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Bruckner, Mahler, Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich and Sibelius
The association caused by the symphony number has always been a topic that music fans talk about. The most widely circulated one is naturally the famous “Ninth Symphony Curse” . Throughout the Romantic era from Beethoven to Mahler, the Ninth Symphony created by different composers without exception became their swan song, so much so that the entire Western music world talked about the Ninth Symphony until this day. The situation was broken by Shostakovich. Under the control of this magical spell, people are naturally accustomed to talking about these Ninth Symphony in parallel. What the “Ninth” has in common is obvious: they are the last important and highly completed symphonies…
