Experiment:
Subjects within this experiment will be tested on their ability to recognize key when presented with a song. The subjects will range from highly trained musicians to people with little to no background in music. They will be asked to sit in a room where they will listen to eight different songs that will all be in different keys. Before beginning the test, they will be instructed to listen to the entirety of the song, taking into account how often every note happens. Instructions will be vague enough so that the true intentions of the experiment will not be revealed, but this part of the experiment will test the subject’s abilities to recognize key based on the distributional theory. Of the eight songs, the first four songs will
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They will be instructed to listen for specific combinations of notes that might tip them off as to what key the song is in. To encourage that the subjects actually think about the songs in this way, they will be told to write down the times when these instances occur (while the song is playing there will be a running stopwatch visible for the subjects to reference when they hear such an occurrence). Subjects will not be told to specifically listen for rare interval, but instead it will be phrased as specific combinations of notes that give away the key. The songs played for the subjects will also be simple songs without any key changes but will have more instances of Butler’s rare interval theory. For example, a song in this part of the experiment will have more instances of notes with a 6 or 1 semitone interval between them than any of the previous four songs played in the first part of the experiment. This part of the experiment will test the structural theory and its results will be contrasted with the results of the distributional theory. In addition to writing down when obvious key hints occur, the subjects will be asked to write down their guess for what key the song was in after the song
This experiment was performed twelve times, on three subjects, over a period of 4-6 weeks. The first subject was a six-year-old boy named Gideon (results are shown in Figs.1-4). His initial blood pressure was 92/53 mmHg; this stayed consistent throughout the entire experiment. The first genre of music that was tested was rock music (Fall Out Boy: My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark). The first time the experiment was performed, his blood pressure was 98/55 mmHg, the second time it was 99/56 mmHg, the third time it was 99/55 mmHg, and the fourth time it was 98/56 mmHg. The second genre of music that was tested was country music (Carrie Underwood ft. Sons of Sylvia: What Can I Say?). During the first trial, his blood pressure was 91/53 mmHg, the second time it was 92/54 mmHg, the third time it was 91/52 mmHg, and the fourth time it was 92/53 mmHg.
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How can different types of music affect people’s emotions? Music has many different ways to affect people. In some ways, it is good for the body both physically and mentally. In other ways, people think it is nice to listen to. More detailed, music has personalities, which can express what people feel. There are many observations involving different ways to express human emotions. Emotions are very interesting things, especially when they involve music. Music can have many personalities, affect people’s emotions, and be used as therapy.
Different styles of music effect people in many ways. The different styles could be different in religion, culture, and their messages towards the public. Because of the many styles , many questions are found concerning how different music effects people in different ways. Every style of music have their own beats, melodies, and instruments which give different effects to the human year. From that difference people percieve these styles of music in many ways. Some people seem to fancy one type of music more than the others, some people can listen to almost any type of music without haste while some do not really care for music at all.
Lastly, learning how to identify the themes in the music and recognizing themes may not change throughout the entire song but it is the variations within the themes that makes the difference in the music we are listening
Just like a mental image has properties of distance and spatial relation- ships, the idea here is that the mental representation of a tune in your head has the property of existing in time, and the property of having temporal relationships (notes can be nearer or further apart in time). Put another way, you can’t randomly access any
...essfully consolidates the two major theories regarding syntactic processing in the realms of music and language, and explains the paradoxical phenomenon of aphasia and amusia patients. In addition, the SSIRH theory shines a light into potential future research that can be conducted to discover empirically supported truth regarding the relationship between music and language. This is especially the case with recent developments in brain imaging techniques.
Popular music places a premium on accessibility, represents various meanings to boost both instant appeal and memorability - distinctive tunes, novel instrumental flourishes, danceable rhythms, repeated riffs - but its signal feature is melodic emphasis and great vocal gatherings.
Consider the possibility that the way to success and achievement has been found. Imagine a scenario in which this key was more than achievable. Truth be told, this key is intuitively incorporated into individuals' day-by-day activities and routines. What if it were affirmed that this key is music. Music is such a powerful constituent of the brain that it has been found to help mental illness and disabilities. For example, people with aphasia, a disease in which one loses his or her capacity to comprehend or express speech, caused by brain damage, can learn how to sing, paying little respect to whether he or she cannot talk as a result of the long haul impacts of music. Music encapsulates a wide element of physical, mental, and pychological
Music is one of the few things that has remained constant through the centuries this world has existed. Not only does music provide entertainment, it also has several effects linked to it. Music allows emotions of happiness and sadness to arise. From those emotions, physical effects, negative or positive, can occur. Music has a profound effect on the emotional, social, intellectual, and physical aspects of a person.
myself to listen to 15 Jazz CD’s in a week and a half, so I
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At the age of ten, my parents decided that I should learn how to play an instrument. In addition, they also chose which instrument I should learn, the guitar. I had no interest in learning the guitar, because all I wanted to spend my leisure time on was improvising my soccer skills. However, my parents believed soccer was a waste of my precious time, time which I should be using to focus on school and expanding my brain by taking on a difficult task, such as learning to play music. This was contrary to what I believed, but I had to do it or else my parents would be displeased. Therefore, the following week, I began taking guitar lessons.