Music And Its Effect On Music

This study attempts to prove that certain music can be used to improve attention, elicit good mood, which will in turn enhance study environment.

Most people multitask while listening to music in their everyday life. When people vacuum, they don’t forget to vacuum the other half of the room when a certain song comes on. In Mr.Cutler’s article, he tries to use evidence to support, connect, and persuade his audience that music will affect your academic work. That is why Mr.Cutler called the article “Don't Listen to Music While Studying.”

The study produced very high interrater reliability (92%) due to the clear and solid definition. However, one problem or limitation with the operational definitions was the lack of explanation between observing people individually or people in groups. Often time, females were observed in groups, but males were observed alone. Therefore, group work could be a confounding variable that skewed the data. Another strength is the internal validity of the study because of the detailed methods, and operational definitions. However, one limitation of this study is the lack of control. When observing, a participant, music was defined as, having had headphones in their ears. However, these people could have been listening to an educational video, or nothing at all. Therefore, the construct validity of this study is weak because listening to music may not have been observed. This study was conducted in a library of a private Midwestern, university, so the setting may have an impact on the results. First, at a private university, academics are held to a high standard, so students may be less distracted because they are determined and focused while completing schoolwork. Also, the observations occurred in a library, which is a quiet setting. Therefore, the lack of normal auditory distraction was not present, which could affect the people not listening to music to be less

Music helps students stay on task and keeps them focused. “Melodious sounds help encourage the release of Dopamine, a “Feel Good” neurotransmitter in the reward area of the brain as would eating a delicacy.” Stated Dr. Amit Sood. Many studies have been concluded with results that when students listen to music they improve in their overall functions.

Music does distract people from doing their work but it only distracts them because they choose to distract

Students should be able to listen to music while studying or completing assignments during class. Music influences humans both in good and bad ways. Listening to music while studying or at work can be beneficial to brain functioning helping you stay focused. When you listen to music while studying, your brain is activated to think spatially. Music is not only beneficial for students but can help with emotional issues as well. The effects of music are very beneficial to students as well as workers and should be allowed in classrooms and work environments.

For years, people have thought that those who participate in musical training are smarter on average than those who do not; however, recent studies have shown that music can be a distraction to many people, making them unproductive.

When I say that music focuses my distractions it can be interpreted a few different ways. One way is that is makes me focused on a particular distraction. This can be very true for me. Music gets me into a mood. Most of the music I listen too doesn’t out right say it but suggests a bad connotation towards school and schooling. I then feel and relate so I then am focused on one distraction the pulls me away from everything else especially my homework. So my music can focus what I am distracting myself from.

The mind is greatly impacted by music by showing healthful changes (www.bellaonline.com/articles/). Doctors now use music for their patients’ treatments in order to help them stay healthy (www.bellaonline.com/articles/). Heart patients acquired the same benefits from listening to classical music for thirty minutes as they did from anti-anxiety medication (www.bellaonline.com/articles/). Musical therapy has been used to help people with heart problems, which worked quite effectively. (www.bellaonline.com/articles/). People who have had migraines frequently, were trained to use music and relaxing procedures to reduce their headaches. Studies have also shown that music helps students with their intelligence levels (www.bellaonline.com/articles/). A majority of students had higher test scores than others because they listened to Mozart before their exam. People who listened to classical music for an hour and a half while revising manuscripts increased their accuracy by 21% (www.bellaonline.com/articles) (Mish 725.).

In recent years it’s become noticeable that students are using all different forms of music to help them while studying or doing homework. When listening to music one may notice how that person may tap their foot or drum their fingers, even though they appear to be focused on the task in front of them. The rhythm of the piece, whether it is fast or slow, causes the listener’s heartbeat to synch with it (How Music Affects Our Mood, 2014). The question however is which music to listen to. In some studies, test subjects show that the louder the music the more distracted the subjects became (Manthei, 2014). Doctor Emma Gray, a clinical psychologist in Britain, says, “If you choose the right music for the topic you are

In order to use music to affect a person’s mood and thus, increase their memory, music cannot be distracting. Salamé and Baddeley’s study (1989), found that background music distracted participants while they tried to recall different 9 digit numbers. They replicated the study using instrumental music, while distracting, was less distracting than vocal music. The current study needed to use music to induce a positive mood, but also needed that music to not distract participants from the recall task. This next study by Thaut and l'Etoile (1993) figured out how best to utilize music to enhance learning without distracting one from a task. They randomly assigned participants to one of five conditions: the presence of music, either as a background stimulus during encoding or recall or both, no music during encoding or recall, or music used to induce mood prior to learning and recall. Participants in the final condition, music used during encoding and recall, recalled the most words. However, it is unclear if this was because the music was emotionally arousing or if because music was acting as an ambient cue for recall. Since this study was interested in music being emotionally arousing, music was

Music has even been described as a ‘language of the emotions’ by some authors (Cooke 1962). To begin, this piece will address our day-to-day experience of listening to music, and the effects music has on the listener, ultimately enabling an immediate emotional response from that specific musical happening. Both the non-structural and structural musical components like melody, rhythm, harmony, tempo, and major and minor modality will be noted in this analyzation of musical emotion and what particular musical elements are likely to trigger those responses. For my visual representation, I created a collage book of my own drawings, photographs, and digital collages that express the varied genres of music and each unique effect a particular genre may have on the individual. Each page is completely distinct from others and communicates the different feelings and emotions I felt during my listening exercise. My objective is to achieve what music and freedom mean to me by visually describing these concepts. To continue, a genre of music can be a representation of mood, as well as a lifestyle choice, and in my visual component I feel I have successfully produced an overall representation of a lifestyle.

Without music the world wouldn’t be the way it. Music has changed the way people have looked at others, have acted, and how they see the world today. From the beginning of music when it came from banging on something to make their own beat. Music became a hideout for people when they needed a place to send their mind. Musicians are the biggest part of music and making it the way it is. Certain musicians changed the way people started to look at music in the 60s. The 60s were a time for standing up for what the country believed it, a time to show the “overpowered” people that they weren 't afraid. Those people looked to musicians such as; Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Jimi Hendrix, and many others to help them through that difficult time in the country.

Another study was done with regards to college students, and stressful situation that they must experience such as exams. O’Connell (1984) has performed a study, investigating state anxiety of college students who listened to music prior to an exam, and his findings suggests a significant reduction in state anxiety levels of these students (as cited in Davis and Thaut,1989). This study however focuses on the use of preferred music rather than pre-chosen music, which indicates that the music could have been from any genre. This is contrary to other studies which found that sedative background music specifically is what tended to reduce state anxiety (Davis and Thaut,1989). Nonetheless, both studies do show a significant reduction in

The first danger of Music is that it affects the Brain. Music affects the memory, the limbic system, and concentration and judgment of the person. “When music is played, it acts much like an intoxicant, in that it makes a person forget about his or her surroundings. It takes the mind into a delusional state. In the realm of mind, there is mounting evidence that certain types of music have a negative effect on one’s ability to think and learn, especially at the time he or she is listening to the music. Studies at two separate universities, for example, have found that rats have a much more difficult time learning to pass through a maze if they are subjected to rock music… Music blurs the critical judgment of the brain” (Mushtaq 56-57). This shows that music is dangerous and