How Music Affects The Mood

Music has the unique ability to affect the listeners' mood. When an athlete is pumping himself up for a game, a mathematician is trying to solve an equation, what does he do? He listens to music. When a man is romancing a woman, or a heartbroken girl is trying to calm herself after a breakup, music is used to set the tone. A director can convey a defined emotion in a scene with the right score. The music in a mass helps people stay reverent and focused. In all these cases, music plays a critical role in defining the listeners' mood and piece of mind. There is rhythm to all things on earth. The heartbeat of a person contains a constant beat; it may speed up or slow down, depending on the mood of the person. If the person is in flight their heart beats faster. If the person is calm and relaxed, their heart will beat slower. A city has a faster rhythm, with louder sounds, because a city is fast paced and noisy. A rural town has slower rhythm because of the slow paced lifestyle. The sun, the earth's metronome, has an elliptic rhythm. Music has such a strong ability to affect mood because it contains beats and rhythms, just like life and everything in it. Music is just the tangible auditory depiction of the rhythms of life. The time is six o'clock at night. It is two hours before game time. The star of a hockey team is taping his
He became one of the most famous classical composers and musicians of his era and beyond. It is believed that by listening to classical music it will make one smarter, raise IQ, and aid in the development of a child's' mind. This is known as the Mozart Effect. Classical music is very soothing yet at the same time complex. The soothing music relaxes the listener so that the mood is right to handle the task at hand. The complexity of the music readies the listener to handle complex situations. By listening to classical music the subject will be in a mood to do work or handle a complex