...Lenhart World Lit- 4th period 19 March 2015 Effects of Music Music has the ability to make people feel different emotions. At times, music can make people cry or even angry. On the other hand, it could make a bad mood turn to a good mood and brighten their day. Music has the ability to connect people together and also has the ability to heal you, physically and emotionally. It can heal the brain and sometimes the heart from emotional damage. Often times, music is used in therapy and rehabilitation centers. Music affects your mood and how your brain functions. According to the online dictionary, “music is the art of sound and time that expresses ideas and emotions in significant forms through elements of rhythm melody and color.” An article states that “emotions are more than just something we feel -- they happen in the body, too” (Millar). In fact, the dictionary definition of emotion is, “an affective state of consciousness in which joy, sorrow, fear, hate is experienced.” The places where emotions are felt most commonly are within the heart. Emotions are highly affected by different types of music. What the brain is, is “the part of the central nervous system enclosed in the cranium of humans and other vertebrates, consisting of a soft, convoluted mass of gray and serving to control the mental and physical actions” (Dictionary). This is what allows people to feel, think and function. Different types of music can affect a person’s mind and emotions in different ways. For example...
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...Music can help a brain develop better. Music was first originated around the Medieval Era. Most of the tune at that time was made for the church. The Renaissance Era came around about in the year of 1400. The people living in that era invented musical instruments like the lute and the tenor recorder. By the middle of the 15th century, composers and singers had evolved the music into different type of genres like ballad, pop or rock. Now a days, instead of using instrument to make songs, there are machines made to product those sounds. While listening to music can be used for entertainment, it can also be used in a different ways like triggering abundant of different type of areas in the brain like the forebrain, midbrain, and hindbrain. Music is also good for increasing sleep quality, improving brain functions, and enhance many different skills like spatial reasoning and or perception skill....
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...Music is something that every person has his or her own specific opinion about. Different people have different taste, and various types of music have many ways of leaving an impact on someone. It can be relaxing, angering, soothing, energizing, and many more. There are so many types of music out there today. Rap, pop, rock, country, indie, alternative, hardcore are some of the abundant types in the world. Music sends out either good or bad messages that have big impacts on how people act. People usually become friends with others who have a same taste in music as the rest of the people they hangout with, or it can be vice versa. People may not want to associate with people who have different tastes in music because they’ll argue about what they think is better but its just their own opinions. Rap and Rock music are two very important types of music in the world. They both send out different messages and help kids. The lyrics sung or rapped by the artists can be things going on in their own personal lives, and people with the same types of problems can listen to them so they know theirs hope and theirs people like this out there in the world. Music can also serve as a catalyst for new ideas. When people listen to the new things out there, they learn different things going on in the world and they become more open-minded because they’re exposed to different people like the artists. A lot of people come to the conclusion that rap music has a very big impact...
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...From the controversial lyrics to the aggressive and unapologetic attitude, rap music is the voice of urban culture. Rap music gives people the confidence to do and say how they feel. It pushes boundaries, even in uncomfortable situations. It expresses the harsh reality in urban and rural cities in such a artistic and realistic way. It is not just about the energetic instrumentals or the catchy metaphors , it’s about the content. Rap music touches on subjects like politics, sexual exploits, and personal uniqueness. It is considered to be the perfect example of postmodern music. It’s affect on American culture is phenomenal. Rap is not just a genre of music, it is a lifestyle. From the clothes people wear, to the way people talk, rap is more than the...
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...Music therapy has been known to help change lives. Just listening to music and focusing on the beat, lyrics, or melody can help calm oneself or even help lift their spirit. Music therapy alleviates stress, anxiety, disorders, and illnesses because music is a core function of the brain. Music therapy alleviates stress and anxiety because it helps regulate people’s bodily systems. For example, a nonclinical trial was used that included 40 children from ages 7-12 years old with leukemia undergoing lumbar punctures. Anxiety scores were measured before and after the procedure. The results were successful showing lower pain scores and lower heart and respiratory rates in the music group. Also, anxiety scores were lower in the music group before and...
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...Hip-hop began in the 1970s in the south Bronx of New York and served a cathartic purpose for the black community. People could explore issues such as the eradication of racism and equality, but since Hip-hop was created, the cathartic use has been abused through the increased use of misogynistic lyrics and music videos. Artists like Ludacris, 50 Cent and Eminem portray women nothing more than “ho’s”, “bitches” and “freaks”. Nothing more than sex objects; and yet, their biggest fan base is adolescents, this is dreadful as neuroscientists have discovered that the teenage brain still undergoes the same radical development as seen in childhood . Teenagers are easily influenced through their formative years ; as they are consuming music videos and lyrics of a sexual nature, the adolescent will not only become desensitized to the misogynistic views; but may also become a misogynist themselves. The teenagers who are passive viewers and are directly affected by what they view, are those who the supporters of the Hypodermic Needle Theory worry about. The Hypodermic Needle Theory (also known as the magic bullet theory) suggests that viewers are passive and are subliminally accepting a message without considering its faults; this is because as a source (for example, radio) can be the only possible source you could view news from, and you then rely and accept its message. An example of the hypodermic needle theory is “The War of the Worlds” radio panic. In October 1938, there was breaking...
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...of Music on Human Performance and Behavior Thesis Statement: Music positively affects human performance and affects the emotions of a person, negatively or positively, depending on what genre and tempo of the music. Introduction I’m a huge fan of music; who am I kidding? All people love music. Music has been part of life for a very long time; it’s been part of history, it is used to tell tales of heroism and courage, among other things. Most people love listening to music while working; it keeps them focused, composed and keeps them from freaking out due to intense stress. People also love listening to music when they exercise; they listen to fast-tempo music to keep their heart rate stable. My point is music has an effect or is a determining factor on human performance. In this report, I’ll be focusing in three aspects of the human performance and how music affects them, which may be positively or negatively. These three aspects are Physical, Cognitive, and Emotional. Main points Physically, music positively affects human performance. When in an intense workout, music covers or drowns out the brain’s cries of fatigue. The muscles will send signals to the brain that it is tired and wants to stop, but music will try to cover out those signals. Listening to music keeps one’s mind from tiredness or fatigue. Listening to music not only keeps one’s mind from the pain of exercise, but also helps use one’s energy efficiently. A study showed that cyclists who listen to music require...
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...listening to music help or hinder productivity in general? After a rough day, when you come home from work, you need something that will make your day better. The best choice you will have is listening to your favorite type of music. You can just turn on your compact disc player and have a great time listening to your music collection. Everyone has a music collection or at least a favorite genre. Did you know that just for English music there are over 10 genres? There is one for everyone. We all have different choices for music, none is better than the other. People these days listen to all kinds of music: hip-hop, classical, country, etc. People are really picky with what they listen to. People don’t want to compromise with what they are listening to, they don’t have to. Approximately, there are over two million songs written and published in the music industry since its birth (Answers.com). According to the stats shown, we know that people have countless choices of music to choose from these days. Music gives you a variety of choices and beats that you have never heard before. There are approximately 50 albums published every week (Approximately how many songs have been produced in the US and the UK since the music industry was born). Music has become a way of life in some parts of the world. Music has a influence on people all over the world. As we all know, music has been existing for over fifty thousand years (History of classical music traditions). Music is a source...
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...Is music moral or amoral? Many people in the world today will tell you that it is amoral, but is that true? Well, before we answer that question, let us look at what the words moral and amoral mean. According to The New Oxford American Dictionary, the definition of amoral is neutral, lacking a moral sense, or unconcerned with the rightness or wrongness of something, while the word moral means concerned with the principles of right and wrong behavior, and the goodness or the badness of the human character. Therefore, when someone says that music is amoral, they are stating that music has no grasp, or affect on us, and that it's just something we listen to. That it is neutral. But, if that is true, then why does the sound and beat of certain music make us want to do different things? Such as dance, tap our foot, and march? Or make us feel relaxed, pumped up, happy, or sad? There's only one reason. Music is not amoral! Music is a very powerful tool that can be used to sway people to and fro. It is a language that reaches into your soul and can change anything about you. Your attitude, your choices, your character, everything about you. The book,Music in the Balance, states that, "The language of music is readable, writeable, and recite-able, and anything that can be read, written, and recited carries moral weight." Music is also a universal language. No matter what nationality or race you are, no matter what language you speak, music all affects us the same. No one is...
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...satisfaction based on the affects of walk up music used during triple-A minor league baseball games. Minor league baseball has always been associated with family entertainment, and game enhancements, such as walk-up music for players, have been utilized to increase overall fan satisfaction. Walk-up music is a short clip of music that is played as a player approaches the batter’s box or the pitcher’s mound. 30 triple-A minor league teams were contacted and were questioned about their policies regarding their use of walk-up music during games. Using qualitative collection methods, this research primarily focuses on the reasoning behind front office decisions to allow players to select their own walk-up music that will utilized during home games. Information gained through a survey that was conducted during the interviews of 30 triple-A minor league baseball teams will add useful insight to future investigations that are focused on the affects of walk-up music at the minor league baseball level as well other levels of competition. Though trying to rule out extraneous variables that may affect fan satisfaction will be difficult, the investigators believe that the information gained will be beneficial to future researchers, and will hopefully be a foundation to more extensive research on the affects of music in correlation to fan satisfaction. Introduction One of the most important advances in consumer research is the recognition that people are more responsive to music that they may...
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...INFORMATIVE SPEECH OUTLINE Topic: | Music | Title: | Effects of listening to music towards human beings | General purpose: | To inform | Specific purpose: | To inform my audience that listening to music can give many benefits that can affects human mentally and physically. | Central idea: | A speech that I am going to deliver is about the benefits of listening to music which is really helping in many aspects that affect human beings physically and mentally. | Organizational pattern: | Spatial order | I. INTRODUCTION | A. Attention getter: | Do you ever stressed over something? Or feeling depressed? If you have, how do you solve it? Did you know that music has a power of calming and healing certain ailments? | B. Background information of the topic: | Music does many things to human body whether physically or mentally such as slowing down and equalizing brain waves, balancing blood pressure, fights depression, relieves anxiety, boosts confidence, improves memory and speeds healing. | C. Preview of main points / central idea: | Today, music has become another alternative to help patient deal with their pain and also people release their stress by listening to music depends on their music taste either the fast rhythm song or slow rhythm song. | Transition to introduction: | Now, music has become a must to listen to, whether they are old people, adult, teenagers and babies. Different ages have different taste of music. Music is thought to link all of the...
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...DOI: 10.1037/a0026937 Can Sad Music Really Make You Sad? Indirect Measures of Affective States Induced by Music and Autobiographical Memories Jonna K. Vuoskoski and Tuomas Eerola University of Jyvaskyla ¨ ¨ The present study addressed music’s disputed ability to induce genuine sadness in listeners by investigating whether listening to sad music can induce sadness-related effects on memory and judgment. Related aims were to explore how the different mechanisms of music-induced emotions are involved in sadness induced by familiar, self-selected music and unfamiliar, experimenter-selected music, and whether the susceptibility to music-induced sadness is associated with trait empathy. One hundred twenty participants were randomly assigned into four conditions with different tasks: listening to unfamiliar sad or neutral music, or to self-selected sad music, or recalling a sad autobiographical event and writing about it. The induced affective states were measured indirectly using a word recall task and a judgment task where participants rated the emotions expressed by pictures depicting facial expressions. The results indicate that listening to sad music can indeed induce changes in emotion-related memory and judgment. However, this effect depends, to some extent, on the music’s relevance to the listener, as well as on the personality attributes of the listener. Trait empathy contributed to the susceptibility to sadness induced by unfamiliar music, while autobiographical memories...
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...Directionality Affect on Emotion The same researchers from the previous study this time were interested in musical scales and the affect of happiness and the emotion of awkwardness. Once again, Collier and Hubbard conducted the study at Texas Christian University. This study consisted of 24 undergraduate students 12 male and 12 female. The stimuli that was presented to the participants was an auditory scale of minor scales consisting of 8 sequential wave tones. The participants rated their levels of happiness and awkwardness on 2 different 1-7 Likert scales with 1 being sad and 7 being happy and 1 being not awkward while 7 being awkward. A single ascending or descending scale was played from speakers for the participants, then 2 Likert scales appeared on a monitor for the students to rate their levels of happiness or awkwardness after they heard the...
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...Many scientists believe that music/audio have an immense effect on our brains. 1 Without music/audio, scientists believe our brains use long - term potentiation (LTP) to receive and comprehend information that is given to us. According to Michael Rugg, LTP is the “lasting communication established between two neurons when they are stimulated simultaneously”. When a person goes through an experience, a pair of neurons transfer information through a synapse, which is known as a chemical conversation. Once this happens, the reaction starts a continuous connection between the neurons streaming and creating a pattern. The event then becomes familiar to the person.2 We want to test how the LTP is affected by different music/audio. According to Mark A. W. Andrews, a...
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...CEL 2103 WRITING ACADEMIC TEXTS MINI WRITING PORTFOLIO 1 FINAL DRAFT Cause and Effect Essay Topic: Music and the Human Brain Title: The Cause and Effect of Music on the Human Brain Introductory Paragraph: The definition of music varies to people, some call it art, some see it as the voice of one’s soul. The dictionary defines it as a pattern of sounds made by musical instruments, voices, or computers, or a combination of these. Music has many genres, ranging from instrumental to pop. Despite the variety, music’s whole purpose is to give pleasure for its listeners. The listeners of music might not notice, but subconsciously, music causes and affects one’s character. Music have some enchantment, an empowerment somehow on the human’s soul and it is almost inevitable to resist it. The causes that contributes to the change in human’s cognitive state are the lyrical content, the rhythm and the dynamics of music, which would affect one’s emotions, learning and memory, also their ability to perceive time. Body Paragraph 1: There are three main components that cause change in the human mind which are the lyrical content, the rhythm and the dynamics of music. First and foremost, the lyrical content have the ability to influence an individual through its explicit lyrics. Usually, heavy metal and rap music would contain drug abuse, violence, and sexual references; thus, themes of rebellion, alienation and vengeance are present in certain songs. Some songs contain...
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