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Psychological aspect of music

So, different sound frequencies trigger different emotions...
 
It seems to me that music gives us the ability to work through or release our pent up emotions in a controlled manner. Almost like therapy (or maybe exercise) for the soul?.
 
I wanted to practice Music Therapy. (didn't work out though). Music is a very powerful force. It's been proven that listening to Mozart while you study and then just prior to a test will help you get more correct answers. Music has also been proven to help increase intelligence levels of babies in utero.

I was particulary interested in using Music Therapy with Autistic Children.

Music is expression. The music that you make or play is an expression of your soul, and is very therapuetic. (Funny, I was just thinking about this in the car during lunch.)
 
>>So, different sound frequencies trigger different emotions...>>

not really...its more the relations between those frequencies and the relations between those relations...coupled with your particular cultural history.

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i think of it as "beautiful sound"
its definitly powerful.. its much more of a euphoriant for me than pot

it seems to be patterns of sound that give an intensely positive reward.. why? i donno but its interesting.. ever since ive tried psychedelics, i have a very visually oriented mind, and can create a picture whenever i want... when music is playing, they dance (whether the objects are people or things), and i can see pretty rainbows, and my perception changes when music plays

i try not to listen to music all the time, because i need to think more abuot the affect of incessently rewarding the mind 24/7 would be

by hte way all music is good to me, some better depending on mood, and loud music seems to go deeper, and of course, theres tripping and hearing music, its like all barriers to comprehending the full extent of the beauty of music are removed, and music fills you up, bashes into every part of your mind... although while when sober the sounds of music still seem to penetrate deep.. just less so
 
I agree with this. I think that music can change any situation and make it either better or worse. Yeah when I'm pissed off I listen to something heavy. When I'm happy i listen to something mellow, or when I'm depressed I listen to something upbeat. Music can change a persons mind; make them feel better, make them fell worse, or just the same. I believe that music can change an atmosphere also. Like a horror movie, the suspense wouldn't be there if there wasn't any music; the music is what makes us scared. And, I dont necesarrily think that music can drive people to commit murder or rape or robberies; but it can help. A person has their own personality and is going to do what they want no matter what. Listening to people like Marilyn Manson didn't make the shooters at Columbine do what they did; They made them do what they did. And, so did the ridicule they recieved from fellow classmates, and also the lack of love they were shown. But anyway, Music is influential and can change moods and minds, and indeed it is powerful, but I think we sometime give it more credit than it is due.
 
A few years ago while performing in Nashville, Tennessee I attended the annual conference of the National Association of Music Therapists. While much of what I saw was very encouraging I left with mixed feelings. It was obvious there was a great enthusiasm for exchanging information on therapy but there was very little understanding of the music aspect of Music Therapy. It seemed to me that by general unspoken consensus any sound produced by a musical instrument was by definition music. The sound produced by a violin or a drum is no more musical than the sound produced by hitting a car with a hammer. The violin has arguably a greater potential for creating music than a car but only in the hands of a musician who is using the violin to communicate. The art form of music is a language of communication, sound is only relevant in that it is the medium through which music travels. Although I am not very experienced with Music Therapy, virtually everything I have seen leads me to believe that what is actually happening is Sound Therapy and that Music Therapy is a misnomer. In one instance I played for a boy who was deaf, blind, brain damaged and had to be constantly restrained as he was unable to control the erratic behaviour of his muscles. The boy was held on the wooden floor underneath my marimba so that he might feel the vibrations. Within a few minutes of my starting to play a piece of music depicting a gentle sadness the carers were able to release their grip and the boy's muscles relaxed. I then played a fun and cheeky piece of music and the boy waved his arms in a controlled manner and smiled. The boy had been in care all his life and between tears his carer told me that to their knowledge, in his nine year old life, this was the first time the boy had been seen to smile, had shown any muscle control or indeed had responded in any way. As a language of communication I believe that music has huge potential in the area of therapy.
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This is a quote from my favorite percussionist Evelyn Glennie from Scotland.
There is also extensive research done by Mickey Hart the drummer for the dead on the virtues of sound therapy with Alzheimer's patients. I remember reading an excerpt from his book drumming at the edge of magic, where he had a drum circle with Alzheimer's patients and it was found that certain drumming frequencies put back something that was missing in the patient's brains for temporarily. Definitely an interesting subject here.

I just want to make a note about depression and listening to dark and/or gut wrenchingly painful music. It's not always that one would want to stay stuck in their pain, but some benefit from experiencing it to it's fullest extent in order to work their way out of it. Does that make sense? I'm sure everyone can relate to this in some way.

On another note I believe that we all come here with a certain and unique sound frequency imprinted into our soul. This is bringing it all down to vibration, not just music. It could explain the differences in music we tend to like. Just some of my thoughts tho'.

Peace. --J.
 
Well, we've all bought something we didn't like in a store simply because there was a really great song playing at that moment, haven't we?

I've always wished that I could get a copy of the soundtrack of my life...like if I knew from the background music if what was going to happen next was ominous or romantic or silly or what, that would give me a lot of contextual information that might be helpful....
 
Music is the one thing that can relate to the purity of thought. Your mind and thoughts move freely and randomly, but they are controlled, or constricted by out language. Language has trapped the free spirit of the human mind. Music, or at least good music, has logical motion, has frequent progression, and moves freely.... the combination of frequency, harmony, and meter are endless. This is why I think we can relate to music so well. It sort of frees your mind, or lets your mind rest on the progression of the music.

thoughts?
 
^^^ I agree. Although I don't think language has "trapped" us in anyway. Language is a great way to convey information. But it sucks at conveying emotion. That's why so many people hate poetry. Music and Art are the true emotive languages, with music being superior in that area for me personally.
 
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