Blog #3 Darling- Music&Emotions

Music does have a big effect on what people emotions. Through out my research a lot of different aspect of what emotions could be and how they can be express. Moreover music has a been effect on the brain which leads to have impact and activate the emotion part of the brain. Through out my research I learn some people don’t really interpret the song the same way the artist was trying to write it or what they mean.

Why music moves us:

 This article describes how music has an impact on people emotions no matter what. In this article it describes how a tribe from Cambodian was taken and undergrad students too, they both took the same text and they had the same results on what they felt according to the music they listening too. I though this really represent the why that music has an impact on the same part of the brain therefore they have the same feeling between both different cultures. This article shows how music has an effect on people’s emotions no matter whom they are.

 Music, Emotions, and Truth:

In this article it talks about how music has been seen as way of people expressing themselves and how music is seen as something beautiful and sad a way to describe what there feeling. Music is seen as something natural however music as been seen by scientist as something that has multiple theories. For example the Arousal Theory which is “that music has properties capable of arousing emotions or feelings in listeners. The arousal may take place because of some causal mechanism in which sounds and the dynamic properties of music affect the human body and mind, or the arousal may be a consequence of a sympathetic mechanism when the music reminds us of human expression of emotions” (Elina Packalén). This describes how this is a theory of how why music has an impact on people’s and what causes there emotions. Another theory is Cognitivist theory, which is “the emotions expressed in music as unfelt, necessarily publicly displayed, and objectless.¹⁸ In Davies’ view, emotions expressed in music are thus different from emotions felt by people. There is however a secondary use of emotion terms that are used in descriptions of human behavior and that is similar to their use in descriptions of [End Page 44] music” (Elina Packalén). This describes how music is can be interpret in different ways I have already read about this however I did not know it was a theory. The last theory is Symbol theory, which is “we express our emotions in utterance and behavior is at least to some extent dependent on our culture, personality, and temper. Human ways of expression are therefore not an entirely reliable indicator of the experienced emotions, and accordingly, the relation between the sonic contour of music and human expression is not a reliable way of identifying emotions expressed in music” (Elina Packalén). This shows how music is away of identification of people emotions and they way its express through music.

Psychology of music:

This article talk about a study that was done were the participants were taken individually and they listen to multiple music were they would them describe what they felt by listening to multiple music. In this study they discover that only six basic emotions the participants felt which were happiness, anger disgust, surprise, sadness, and fear. However these emotions were not connected to people childhood or personal traits.

Reading so many articles about emotions and the way music can influence what people feel. I have come to the conclusions that music does have an effect on what people feel. However the emotions that individuals can feel can be a little debatable because what you think u feel and like could be different to what the brain reacts too.  

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Music, Emotions, and Truth

Perception of six basic emotions in music

Why Music Moves Us

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