Does certain kinds of music have an emotional effect because of learned associations, or by instincual means?
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Both. Harmony of both.
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Yes, the complexity of the music exercises the brain.
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There is much science in music. The patterns of music should be viable in science. Sounds like someone needs to do an experiment. \nTechnology has made it available to write all the orchestra parts with a computer.\nMusic therapy is used all over now.Plants are said to like music. Music is soothing to all ages and animals. Subliminal work has ben done.
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music depending on the type can make you happy or sad it can make you want to scream or cry  and it can mke you stop everything your doing and enjoy life for a min.
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What?\n\nYou know it depends on muscle memory or music, do you like what you are trying to remember? Is it important. All factors, yo.
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-The melody is emphasized, the melody and accompaniment are each heard distinctly. \n-Themes are more irregular \n-Emphasis on emotional qualities \n-Minor keys and dissonance are used frequently to express different emotions \n-Expression markings, such as dynamics, are numerous and detailed \n-Common genres: Character Pieces and Program Music\n\n...
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Great Question Coastal\nOur brain attempts to process every single sensory event in our lives on a continual 24 hour a day basis. \n\nWe tend to like music better than most regular sounds because regular sounds tend to be non patterned and hard to identify, catagorize and process. Music is usually rythmic and patterned, which is easier for our brains to identify and process.\nSome music is easier for your brain to process than others because the notes exist at a frequency that is easy for your brain to recognize and transfer through its "pipeline".\nMusic is a very personal experience because the atomic processing systems of each person is unique. \nCertain frequencies will affect each person differently.\n\nThere are many other factors involved in music being deemed enjoyable, such as associative relationships. (what was happening to you while the music played, what memories are evoked while the song is playing. etc..)\n\nScientifically speaking, our Physical sense of pleasure from music, without taking into account any other factors, will be the result of the compatibilty of our processing system with the frequency being processed.  (What frequencies of energy, or combination of frequencies of energy, are easiest, or most satisfying for our existing energy sensing system to process.) \n\nExample-1\nToo much heat energy through our touch sensory system in our fingers will cause the atoms in our fingers to absorb too much energy and swell, possibly to destructive levels. We perceive this as a burn. Some people however can handle much more heat energy than others before feeling pain.\n\nExample-2\nToo much audio energy at an uncumfortable level,(air horn siren), will do the same thing to the atoms that transfer the sound energy after it is converted to electrical signal. \nEvery person has an optimal range of audio energy processing that is different from everyone else. We tend to listen to the \ntype of energy that is the easiest for us to process.\n\nAnimals can probably appreciate the difference between soothing comforting energy levels and assaultive painful ones.\n\nA lot of info, but I hope this helps.\nKeep asking the good questions.
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Songs make you feel that way because of the fact that songwriters pull their music and lyrics from somewhere incredibly deep inside themselves. It's an expression of strong emotion, and it touches you deeply. I just lost a friend in a car accident, and a certain song (Brave Saint Saturn...Estrella) had me absolutely sobbing. The songwriter was writing about something totally different than I was experiencing, but his emotion touched mine through music in a way that only music can.
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Language and music are universal among human cultures. Both involve organized acoustic\nsequences and engage complex cognitive and motor processes. The relationship\nbetween language and music has long interested scholars across a broad range of disciplines,\nfrom linguistics to neuroscience.,scientists have proved a grate dynamic between language and music,by the way musicologists and linguists have often suggested that the prosody of a culture’s spoken language\ncan influence the structure of its instrumental music. However, empirical data supporting this idea\nhave been lacking. This has been partly due to the difficulty of developing and applying comparable\nquantitative measures to melody and rhythm in speech and music. This study uses a recently developed\nmeasure for the study of speech rhythm to compare rhythmic patterns in English and\nFrench language and classical music. We find that English and French musical themes are significantly\ndifferent in this measure of rhythm, which also differentiates the rhythm of spoken English\nand French.,so it is absolute interaction between music and learning language.
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According to a study, people do better on tests when classical music is playing.  This will have no effect on whether the students will do better in the class after the music stops, however.  This phenomenon is known as the Mozart Effect.\nI learned about this in a college Music Apprecation class, but I put a link for an article on Wikipedia with more info
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It's somewhat depressing to me that people listen to "classical" music primarily for relaxation. Beethoven was not relaxed when he wrote the Fifth Symphony. Sure there is some that is simply beautiful and can produce a feeling of calm and balance. But what about composers like Messiaen, Stravinsky, Shostakovich, Britten, Schoenberg, Berg, Webern, Carter, Busoni, Boulez, etc., who connect with powerful, complex emotions?
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Yes it has been shown in scienctific studioes that plant sod react to music. and other sounds.\nPlants that were subject to smoothing low sound sof music wer efound to grow better and healthier than those with loud blaring music(these did worse) and those with no music.\nI read of the test first about 20 yrs a go but this i sthe first response to that study I have ever seen. \nThanks I alway wondered about the study if it was still ongoing.and will look into it if I get the time.
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Music is organized sound, so I think the answer would be "irregular vibration patterns".  These links should help.
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I did  a course on the Science of music at university as part of my Physics degree, and music is defined as "A series of noises that cause an emotional response". So there is no hard and fast definition of what usic is or why it does what it does.\n\nHowever, it is believed that certain sounds at certain frequencies can cause certain bio-feedback responses. Just as the sound of a child screaming grates most people, the sound of a wolf howling is eerie, and the sound of laughter is infectious, so too with music.\n\nSo part of music may be evolutionary - certain sound frequencies, however embedded, cause certain natural reactions in the body. These are experienced by the listener.\n\nAs well as this, we "learn" certain sounds/combinations of sounds, and relive past experiences and pleasures with them. just as the taste of a food or a smell can remind you of a loved one or a situation you once encountered, so can certain sounds, or combinations of sounds. We can feel nostalgia and a warm, loving glow if we hear music from our early childhhood, as we can associate this with the feelings then.\n\nCertainly, the speed of the music (tempo) seems to play an important part too - fast music fills us with energy (possibly making us angry), while slower music can relax us more - so long as it is not dis-cordant.\n\nthe truth is that it is not a hard and fast science, and varies from individual to individual, but the theories above will paly a part in the appreciation of an individual towards "music".
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Yes - it's connected to the same part of your mind that associates visual cues with responses.  Similar to when you see someone crying, and you suddenly become sad.  Similar association.
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Music is a form of communication between souls that no words can describe.  When you discover the type of music that moves you, you have found joy.  When you have found a special person that is moved by the same music, you have found love.
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yea totally music changes you if you lessening to sad song you feel sad and stuff and music does change me allot