ABSTRACT
Virginia Woolf wrote in her diary that "all descriptions of music are quite worthless, and rather unpleasant; they are apt to be hysterical, and to say things that people will be ashamed of having said afterwards". Approaches to music can be nominalist, idealist, fictionalist, eliminativist, Platonist, realist, creationist, contextualist, or formalist, to name quite a few. According to theoretical physicist Michio Kaku, string theory is beautiful because it proposes the notion of "cosmic music". Music can also influence nature. The 2010 "Beetle Mania" research project at Northern Arizona University sought to reduce the destruction of pine beetles. In 2010, teachers at West Park School, Derby, England subjected badly behaved children to two hours of classical music as a relaxant and deterrent against bad behavior. Alan Partridge, an awkward and self-absorbed fictional radio and television personality played by Steve Coogan illustrates the danger of narcissism for wellbeing.
