Music That Makes Them Weep Analysis

In the podcast “Why Do Listeners Enjoy Music that Makes Them Weep?” Steve Muncher interviews David Huron in order to find out why music has such a strong effect on people. Through a series of questions he figures out that this phenomenon is possible because the music manipulates the brain into feeling like it has been through a hard time. The podcast also contributed to my understanding of music on people and myself.
Mencher interviews David Huron who is a “Professor music and head of the Cognitive and Systematic Musicology Laboratory in the School of Music.” He is also a part of Ohio State University’s Center for Cognitive Science. He was not only picked to give the information his team has discovered because of his workings with the school. He is also the author of Sweet Anticipation: Music and the Psychology of Expectation. In the beginning of the interview Mencher …show more content…
Specifically when the interview focused on the process of listening to music. While defining predictability and why people do not like music where it is hard to guess what is coming next, Huron used an example of going to a restaurant. He said that the less times you got to a restaurant you are more likely to order the same thing and the more times you go to a restaurant the more you are willingly to try different things at said restaurant. When you are trying something different you can either like it or not like it. If you do not you can go back to what you usually order. This idea applies to me when I listen to music and try to listen to different music. Even if it is by the same artist I could dislike it and continue to listen to the music that I am used to listening to. Following his definition is another idea he explained that I related to. He explained how people have to listen to new music multiple times before they can determine if they like it or