Greek Music Influence

From religion to entertainment to swooning over girls, artists have used music as a way to express their emotions towards a specific subject. Throughout time, the effects music has on the mind has been overlooked; that music has the ability to do so much more than just be a form of entertainment. Due to recent experiments, music has been shown to change the behavior of an individual by stimulating the brain and increasing neural connections. Music can not only entertain, but it can also advance learning in the sense it promotes memory, concentration and attention of students in a learning environment. Uses of music have drastically changed over time, ranging from being used in the church to being used as a way to express one's inner emotions. From early Egypt music has been used as a way to worship a higher spirit than humans themselves. Music was played through an array of instruments, as well as male and female voices being used to carry the tempo and rhythm of songs. It is no surprise that there were known to be gods that were associated with music, for
“Based on both the increase in narrative reading time and the general decrease in reading comprehension scores in the with-music reading section of the student examinations, it is reasonable to conclude that students splitting their attention between reading/studying and preferential music are unable to effectively control their cognitive coordination.”(Knight 27). Music had been seen to decrease the positive behavior of the children, therefore arguing that music puts a negative impact on test scores. However, when listening to the brain, the brain's neural connections are relatively high in comparison to other activities. The music stimulation on the brain increases memory rates and allows for easier