Dear Vishnu Sankar S,

I'd want to share only my personal experience on your very interesting question. My area of interest is Combinatorial Optimization and I'm a professional programmer. I developed some sites in ASP.NET with C# that can be accepted in the Internet. On the other hand, I like play the piano many classical music of different composers as Beethoven, Chopin, Rachmaninov an others. I like play different opera transcriptions for piano of Verdi, Wagner and symphony transcriptions for piano of Beethoven (in transcriptions of Franz Liszt). Each time, developing a site, I try to find the most appropriate classical music to help himself to create my Online Product in the Internet. Then, while I'm developing my site, I try play this classical music in order to "influence on my mind and body". Currently I'm developing a site that I linked with Sergei Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No. 2 and try to play from time to time the First Part of this brilliant concerto.

You may find some literature on my Profile. Especially have a look into the publications of Stefan Koelsch (Music and Brain), the profile of Julian Thayer (Heart Rate Variability and Music) and the work of Gottfried Schlaug, Ralph Spintge, Robert Zatorre an other colleagues.

Are you rather interested in basic research or therapeutic applications of music? There is huge corpus of literature about music and physiology, especially music and brain, music therapy and music medicine.

Regards Thomas

Have you considered reading  Marie Jaëll's [1846-1925] books on piano physiology? 

It could also be interesting for you :  "Musicophilia" ; Tales of Music and the Brain, from Oliver Sacks, Picador, 2008. Important Bibliography.

Physiology via stress response (hormonal changes)?

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0070156

There is a lot of research done in this field. I recommend you start reading these two references:

Susan Hallam: The Power of Music, a research synthesis of the impact of actively making music on the intellectual, social and personal development of children and young people. Here I copy the link to the full document: http://www.laphil.com/sites/default/files/media/pdfs/shared/education/yola/susan-hallam-music-development_research.pdf

Daniel Levitin: Your Brain in Music. http://daniellevitin.com/publicpage/books/this-is-your-brain-on-music/

Also you could read different research articles published in the journal "Psychology of Music": http://pom.sagepub.com/

If you need more specific works don't hesitate to ask me about. I may find some research studies that may help you.

Thank you all..This area is very much important and have many research aspects. 

Another aspect of the feedback loop- not just only from the music to physiology, but also the physiological well-being of musicians on music produced. And ironically the need to excel in music (i.e. hours of practice versus actual performance) and its demands on our physiology. Carpal tunnel syndrome for pianists and other occupational hazards for musicians

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