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1NOT FOR THE FIRST time in recent years, tests have demonstrated the value of classical music in inducing soundness of mind in the hearers.

In the Kosice-Saca private hospital in Slovakia experiments in playing music to new-born babies has established that they sleep better and are in every way more relaxed and healthy when classical music is played to them frequently in the days after birth. When they hear it they fall asleep or lie awake peacefully.

Mozart is the favourite but other classics such as Brahms's Lullaby and Vivaldi's Four Seasons also have greatly soothing effects.

Not long ago, researchers at the University of Berlin discovered that students listening to Mozart before exams did much better than those who listened to other composers or to no music at all. It was judged that the rhythmic qualities of Mozart's music mimic some of the rhythmic cycles which occur in the brain.

None of this is a surprise to us. The music of Mozart, perhaps more than that of any other leading composer, is the music of order. It induces order in the mind and an ordering of the emotions. By contrast, so much of what today passes for 'pop' music is the music of chaos. It has a fundamentally 'disordering' effect on the human brain - particularly among White, western peoples, to whom it is neither native nor natural.

It seems not coincidental that the British yob who makes his (and sometimes her) presence so objectionable to people both at home and abroad is nurtured on a diet of the most moronic, mind-bending noise to which the word 'music' is all too often erroneously applied.