How can music actually change our mood ??

Question

plz tell me how different types of music (pop, rock, metal, etc) can change our moods.....

Answer 1

well there are several different ways to look at your question

scientifically- when music is recorded... the energy that the artist expresses is trapped or recorded and then put on a cd. when you press play this energy(vibration) is released into your atmosphere.....

different emotions can be commonly identified with positive or negative energy(vibration) as our society and history has created them

anger, sadness, brooding, spite, obviously negative

joy, happiness, peace, inspiration a few positive


Psychologically-
Anything that you hear, see, smell, touch can affect your mood. If your listening to a song about how someone got thier heart broken, it is sorta the same as if you were talking to a friend who had their heart broken. you can hear the pain in thier voice.... how thier actions are long and drawn out(like some music) or how they get quick tempered and become unrationall angry or rationally angry :) (think death metal)

Musically- certain chords hold different feels..... Major chords have more harmony(think about how the word harmony is used other than music) if two people are in harmony then that makes for a positive mood.

Minor chords- have alot of dissonance which i can only explain as turmoil and lack of harmony and cause many different vibrations

the best way to inderstand completely is to think about someones voice when they are up or down.....

whew hope his helps.... oops i have more


did you every hear any older people brag about how old vinyl records sound so much better than all these digital stereo's cd, and mp3's?

studies have been done showing that older methods of recording has stronger effects on the listener because it wasn't digitally compressed and changed at one time and you were actually hearing a more organic vibration than you hear today..... just think how much more live music affects you to get an idea of this too!!!

Answer 2

Rhythm excites very basic instincts within man.
Music, unlike speech, is heard and processed in a different part of the brain than words and sentences.

When people have lost all ability to speak because of Alzheimer's, they can still sing the songs with lyrics that they learned.

Children who listen to Mozart's music have greater math skills than those who don't. New Age music with 50 beats per minute has a very calming physical effect on the brain.

Music can calm us, excite us, make us happy and sad and angry and it can even degrade us if it has disrespectful lyrics.

It can change our dreams if we listen to it as we sleep.

And in the right settings, music can uplift us and inspire like nothing else.

I think that the power of music is not even fully understood yet.
But I know it's very powerful.

Answer 3

at the same time as unsightly melodies are performed, the posterior cingulate cortex prompts, which shows a sense of conflict or emotional discomfort. the right hemisphere has also been chanced on to be correlated with emotion, which could also change on elements contained in the cingluate in cases of emotional discomfort, quite social rejection (Eisenberger). This information, alongside with observations, has led many musical theorists, philosophers and neuroscientists to link emotion with tonality. This seems rather a lot glaring because the tones in music look like a characterization of the tones in human speech, which factor out emotional content textile. The vowels contained in the phonemes of a music are elongated for a dramatic result, and it form of feels as although musical tones are basically exaggerations of the conventional verbal tonality. ~ Wikipedia So, that's fairly observable that mind pastime is diverse at the same time as listening to diverse styles of music. And it truly is real, because diverse melodies can create a sense of content textile besides as lack of enthusiasm, which alters the temper of someone. also, between the major procedures i take advantage of to get rid of my psychological fatigue, is playing the piano. i think that it squeezes out the toxins and releases endorphins into the device which advance my temper and reduce rigidity.

Answer 4

Well Hardy,
Here's an example for you
I can be rolling through town with a cut of Sade on -- feeling pretty good about the world and life in general ---
And, one of these rolling speaker cabinets can slide up beside me at the stoplight with this crap they play loud enough to re-adjust my rearview mirrors --- and the next thing I know -- I'm wishing I had a ball bat to re-adjust the contours of their vehicle !! Now, THAT's a mood changer !!!!!

Answer 5

It's easy for most people to identify with certain music. Music can be uplifting, or it can bring you down. Make you sad or melancholy. I personally, can't stand "heavy metal." I can barely tolerate classical opera. Music is kinda private for me. I can almost get "lost" in it. I used to have various selections for whatever mood I was in.

Answer 6

Any music can change mood; whether it be making us feel happy, nostalgic, saddened, etc. Things that make us happy for example, make humans release endorphins. Endorphins, change mood.

Answer 7

wen i listen to HipHop, i feel gangsta

wen i listen to R&B, i feel relaxed

wen i listen to love song, i feel im lonely

wen i listen to Techno, im dancing

Answer 8

cool