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AhmedThe Sound of Silence - Science
May 9th 2006 02:46
Nearly everyone listens to music, as it has the ability to connect with your deepest feelings and emotions.
Music is funny that way. A song that makes my heart ache with the pain of one thousand lost generations, may sound like repetitive noise to someone else.
Of course, someone else is always wrong. My taste in music is infallible, just like the word of Bog.
Liz posted an interesting article that points to interesting research findings... it may be the silence in the music, not the actual tones, that cause changes in mood.
People have always commented that certain types of music inspire different emotions... from Liz's post:
"Grunge rock music, for example, has been found to encourage hostility, sadness, tension and fatigue, and to repress feelings of caring, relaxation, mental clarity and vigour.
Country music has been linked to depression and suicide. In contrast, music labelled “easy listening” has also been attributed with putting people in good moods.
Classical music is generally uplifting, and has even been claimed to make people smarter via what psychologists term the “Mozart Effect”.
I guess the researchers never watched A Clockwork Orange, a film that used classical music to reinforce acts of ultra-violence.
Luckily, I'm already a genius, so the Mozart Effect has no effect on me. In fact, when I sing along to Mozart, people have noticed a 'Cibby Effect', making them better-looking and fixing their crooked teeth.
Music is funny that way. A song that makes my heart ache with the pain of one thousand lost generations, may sound like repetitive noise to someone else.
Of course, someone else is always wrong. My taste in music is infallible, just like the word of Bog.
Liz posted an interesting article that points to interesting research findings... it may be the silence in the music, not the actual tones, that cause changes in mood.
People have always commented that certain types of music inspire different emotions... from Liz's post:
"Grunge rock music, for example, has been found to encourage hostility, sadness, tension and fatigue, and to repress feelings of caring, relaxation, mental clarity and vigour.
Country music has been linked to depression and suicide. In contrast, music labelled “easy listening” has also been attributed with putting people in good moods.
Classical music is generally uplifting, and has even been claimed to make people smarter via what psychologists term the “Mozart Effect”.
I guess the researchers never watched A Clockwork Orange, a film that used classical music to reinforce acts of ultra-violence.
Luckily, I'm already a genius, so the Mozart Effect has no effect on me. In fact, when I sing along to Mozart, people have noticed a 'Cibby Effect', making them better-looking and fixing their crooked teeth.
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Comment by Anonymous
interesting questions about silence.
Anyway i don't agree with your definitions of musical effects on humans, because all the time you are referring to western educated ears, but not other cultural ears.
What i mean is that all this effects are also caused by a cultural education, and we understand and even feel most of this effects because we are educated in a certain way.
for example i'm not sure if an african person would say the same about the music you are talking about, but maybe he receives similar feelings from other completel different musics or sounds.
sorry for my bad english....
Comment by Cibbuano
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A very good point.... actually, the text in green is from another article, I didn't write it.
But what you said is very true, perhaps an African person would find classical music irritating or unmoving.
Seems like it would be an interesting experiment!
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