Music theory

pleasurable responses to music correlate with activity in brain regions implicated in reward and emotion, Blood and Zatorre used positron emission tomography to study the neural mechanisms. Results involved changes in heart rate, electromyogram, and respiration. Increase and decrease were detected in the brain regions involving in reward, motivation, emotion, and arousal. Similarly Alluri and colleagues in From Vivaldi to Beatles and back, predicts the brain activity in music listening…

It is well-established that human behavior is guided by affect and emotion (Damasio, 1994; Fridja, 1988) and most people, when surveyed, report that they experience strong emotions when they listen to music (Sloboda & O’Neill, 2001). Lacourse et al. (2001) showed through their research that music is able to regulate emotions by validating or temporarily allowing an escape from thoughts and feelings, and releasing pent up emotions, anxiety, energy and anger. These emotions are found to be…

in a situation where you always wonder what it would be like if you’ve made another decision in life? I was. Born and raised in China, I have been always influenced by the traditional value—do what most people do, listen to your parents. Pursuing music has always been my dream that I was too scared to reach to. Most people around me always define success in a monetary way. I was never brave enough to challenge the traditional way of thinking until I recently moved to the United State and…

live-action sequences of the music recording session. As someone who loves working with music and sound, this movie appealed to me as soon as the chase started. The reason is that I believe the music constitutes the actual pace. For instance, each character in the chasing sequences was clearly shot in twos for normal movement, as opposed to fast. This works fine for the first half of the film. However, as the chase reaches its peak at the end, the tempo of the music increases, but movement speed…

no bright colors. My taste in good music is music that have a singer that are sopranos. I can’t sing so I would always try to sing in a soprano voice. Since I can’t sing in that way I find other artist that can. Operas, loud metal, and other types of music that have a soprano singers I love to listen to. Of course horrible music is anything that bad mouth people, have no rhythm, or no beat. Great theatre production must include the same guidelines to good music. Along with that, it must have a…

reported that they shopped longer when presented to known music; they really shopped longer when they were presented to new music (cited in Vida, Obadia and Kunz, 2007). Music’s impact on shopping conduct found that altogether less time was spent in the stores when the music was loud contrasted with when it was soft (Smith and Curnow, 1966 cited in Alpert and Alpert, 1990). Gardner (1985) proposed in their study that, positive (happy) music ought to prompt to positive temperaments, which ought…

really create a sense of excitement throughout the piece. The triplets played by all of the horns also add to this excitement. It seems as though John Williams, the composer for the Star Wars movies, took a lot of inspiration from this piece of music. The low reed sound at around 3:20 creates a mysterious and almost foreboding feeling. The finally with the sharp staccato rhythm really brings the piece together at the end. II. Venus, Bringer of Peace- Holst uses a much softer tone and…

For this assignment, I opted to go without music for 48 hours to visually perceive how much it would affect my daily routine. Music is essential to my everyday life because I highly enjoy singing, playing the piano, and listening to the radio. I am involved with my school’s top accolade choir and am very devoted to enhancing my skill level. I additionally take piano courses at my high school and practice a lot at home. I find that music plays a very powerful role in society far beyond any…

Discussion The experiment conducted by Myriam V. Thoma disproved the hypothesis that listening to relaxing music prior to a stressful task would decrease overall stress response. The experiment showed that the highest values in cortisol were observed in the group that listened to music before the TSST while the lowest were in the group that listened to rippling water. Unexpectedly, it was found that cortisol levels in RM were not significantly lower than that of R. The results of this experiment…

Perhaps music is a habit. There were days when I was bored and lethargic; and there were also days when I was invigorated and somewhat hyperactive. But there wasn’t a day without me spending at least half an hour with my cello before I sleep. Sometimes, I practice to prepare for upcoming assessments and concerts; but more often than not, I just play anything that comes to my mind – be it a chart-topping pop song that I heard on the radio, a classical tune that is somehow stuck in my head, or…