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Humans have extraordinary brain power, however, a method is also needed to optimize brain performance. One of them is short-term memory. Listening to classical music will provide calm and stimulate and regulate the brain's condition for concentration. Classical music can also balance the activity of the right and left brain and regulate brain waves in good condition when studying. The type of research used was pre-experimental with a one group pretest posttest design, with the aim of seeing the influence of classical music on short-term memory in first year students at Pasim National University, Bandung city. The data collection technique used was simple random sampling with a sample size of 10 people, the average value of short-term memory in the pretest (16.3), posttest (21.4), and the average value of increase (5.1). . From the results of this research, it is stated that classical music has an effect on short-term memory in Pasim National University students, with evidence that there is an increase in results from pretest to posttest.

Hypertension or high blood pressure is a disease that is often suffered by many people, hypertension itself sometimes has symptoms that the sufferer does not know about. A condition that causes about half of all deaths from stroke and heart disease. The aim of this study aims to determine the effect of classical music therapy on changes in blood pressure in hypertensive patients at the Ambalat SESKO TNI Bandung Clinic. This research uses a quantitative questionnaire method with a pre-post test research design (Quasy experiment), the data analysis used is the Wicoxon test. The respondents were 25 TNI members at the Ambalat SESKO TNI Bandung Clinic. The instruments in this study used a sphygmomanometer and classical music.