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
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stick and is focused on the task at hand, getting ready to crush his opponents and tear up the ice. This hockey player has his headphones bumping to his favorite pump up song, "Du Hast" by Rammstein. He is listening to this song because it puts him in a mood of anger and instills the desire to induce pain. "Du Hast" has a strong bass drum, gothic voice, harsh guitar sounds, and up-tempo drums. The hockey player is trying to achieve a level of anger so he can play through as much pain as possible and take the ice instilling terror. The loud music and harsh tones set the scene for the player to achieve his desired mood. The grass is always greener on the other side. It is common on the road of life where human beings feel like they have taken the wrong turn, and want to go back, back to when everything was good, the past. The feeling of nostalgia is sustained when the present is tough. Nostalgia is a longing for the past, generally during times of happiness. Nostalgia can be achieved by looking at old photo albums, watching home movies, simply thinking about the past, or by listening to music that conveys nostalgia. John Legend's song "It Don't Have to Change" is a nostalgic song. Not only the beats and rhythms (instrumentals) of this song induce nostalgia but also the lyrics. The combination of instrumentals and lyrics is what makes music so powerful because the instrumentals already set the tone for the song. A song without lyrics can still be a very moving piece of music, Beethoven or Bach for instance. Music captivates the listener so much more when meaningful lyrics are dropped in behind equally meaningful beats and rhythms. Blue notes, a sound that characterizes blues music is a sound often used to induce nostalgia. It is a sound that is soft and easy. John Legend uses blue notes and soothing piano keys to set the nostalgic tone and then drops in with lyrics about the past. "Do you remember, when the family was everything, do you remember, it was so long ago and so much has changed, I want to go back, want to go back to those simple days. I want to go back but now we've grown and gone our separate ways. Time gets hard, and things are a changing, I pray to god that we can remain the same, all I'm trying to say, is our love don't have to change, no it don't have to change" (Legend). Thus inducing a certain mood within the listener, nostalgia. The best tool a director of a movie uses is music. One of the most common ways music is used is to affect mood in a scene for a movie or play. The music in a scene sets the tone and conveys the mood to the moviegoer. If the director is trying to convey in a chase scene that it is very intense, dangerous, and serious, he will play music that sounds intense, dangerous, and serious. Music that is loud, with very high-pitched sounds, sounds in dissonance, because the act of a chase scene is in dissonance with society, then the moviegoer will feel what the music conveys. There doesn't even need to be words, just the background music will set the tone. In the same chase scene, if the music playing is cheerful and jolly, there will be a very different outcome. The moviegoer will feel that the scene is funny, not serious, and that there isn't an immediate threat to the driver. When in actuality it is all the above, but the music set the mood and tone for it to be otherwise. The options to set the mood in this scene aren't only scary or happy. Say there are no sounds in the chase scene, total silence, except for one sound, a metronome or heartbeat. A metronome usually will have the same affect as a heartbeat, because it can increase or decrease in speed or pulse, but will always carry the beat. The moviegoer will see this scene, and the total silence except for the heartbeat or metronome, will leave the person feeling like the driver is coming to his end. Heartbeats represent life and the possible cessation of life. Just by choosing a different form of music, the whole scene is changed. Mozart was a child prodigy.
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
situation. There are many places in society that are stressful. A doctors' waiting room, airport terminals and security gates, hotel check-in desks, telephone customer service calls, car rentals, insurance agencies, are all stressful. In all the preceding places or situations stressful things are happening, and the owners of these businesses all do one thing to counter that stress, play soothing music. Music like this is often referred to as "on-hold" music. It received that name simply because every place that makes you wait, plays it, because it has a calming effect. This music puts the subject in a mood of relaxation, calmness, and leaves them feeling carefree. This is done because the business owners want happy customers, so they manipulate them without the customers even knowing it. A dentist doesn't want to work on a patient that is freaking out about a root canal, so they play it. A doctor who already needs to break bad news to a patient wants them to be calm and relaxed for the news to come, so they play it in the waiting rooms. Hertz wants their customers driving off happily on their vacation, so it's played. "On-hold" music has the ability to sooth and relax. At the first Vatican reform, known as Vatican I, a debate topic was the use of music in mass. Some thought that mass is for worshipping, and not to be entertained and have a good time. Others thought that by listening to music it helps put people in the mood to worship God. To this day Catholics across the world sing along to music and song. Obviously since we still listen to music in mass today, they were right, it puts the worshippers in the mood to worship. As one readies themselves to accept the body of Christ, they think of their sins, and then get ready to worship the spirit they are about to ingest by listening to these lyrics, "Holy, holy, holy Lord, God of Power and God of Might, Heaven and earth are full of you glory, Hosanna in the highest, Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest." These words combined with the riveting sound of pipe organs truly puts the Catholic in the mood to worship God. Music has the unique ability to affect the listeners' mood. There are many elements in life and on earth that are similar to music, and affect mood. Angry songs can pump up an athlete. Music can act as a time machine and whisk a person to the past. A scene to a movie can change infinitely depending on the background music. Classical music can actually make a person smarter, and put them in a mood to complete difficult tasks. Music can accelerate the success of a business by keeping customers happy and relaxed, by playing music that puts them in a relaxed mood. The lyrics of a song in mass can create a heavenly connection between worshipper and God. Music has the unique ability to affect the listeners' mood.
stick and is focused on the task at hand, getting ready to crush his opponents and tear up the ice. This hockey player has his headphones bumping to his favorite pump up song, "Du Hast" by Rammstein. He is listening to this song because it puts him in a mood of anger and instills the desire to induce pain. "Du Hast" has a strong bass drum, gothic voice, harsh guitar sounds, and up-tempo drums. The hockey player is trying to achieve a level of anger so he can play through as much pain as possible and take the ice instilling terror. The loud music and harsh tones set the scene for the player to achieve his desired mood. The grass is always greener on the other side. It is common on the road of life where human beings feel like they have taken the wrong turn, and want to go back, back to when everything was good, the past. The feeling of nostalgia is sustained when the present is tough. Nostalgia is a longing for the past, generally during times of happiness. Nostalgia can be achieved by looking at old photo albums, watching home movies, simply thinking about the past, or by listening to music that conveys nostalgia. John Legend's song "It Don't Have to Change" is a nostalgic song. Not only the beats and rhythms (instrumentals) of this song induce nostalgia but also the lyrics. The combination of instrumentals and lyrics is what makes music so powerful because the instrumentals already set the tone for the song. A song without lyrics can still be a very moving piece of music, Beethoven or Bach for instance. Music captivates the listener so much more when meaningful lyrics are dropped in behind equally meaningful beats and rhythms. Blue notes, a sound that characterizes blues music is a sound often used to induce nostalgia. It is a sound that is soft and easy. John Legend uses blue notes and soothing piano keys to set the nostalgic tone and then drops in with lyrics about the past. "Do you remember, when the family was everything, do you remember, it was so long ago and so much has changed, I want to go back, want to go back to those simple days. I want to go back but now we've grown and gone our separate ways. Time gets hard, and things are a changing, I pray to god that we can remain the same, all I'm trying to say, is our love don't have to change, no it don't have to change" (Legend). Thus inducing a certain mood within the listener, nostalgia. The best tool a director of a movie uses is music. One of the most common ways music is used is to affect mood in a scene for a movie or play. The music in a scene sets the tone and conveys the mood to the moviegoer. If the director is trying to convey in a chase scene that it is very intense, dangerous, and serious, he will play music that sounds intense, dangerous, and serious. Music that is loud, with very high-pitched sounds, sounds in dissonance, because the act of a chase scene is in dissonance with society, then the moviegoer will feel what the music conveys. There doesn't even need to be words, just the background music will set the tone. In the same chase scene, if the music playing is cheerful and jolly, there will be a very different outcome. The moviegoer will feel that the scene is funny, not serious, and that there isn't an immediate threat to the driver. When in actuality it is all the above, but the music set the mood and tone for it to be otherwise. The options to set the mood in this scene aren't only scary or happy. Say there are no sounds in the chase scene, total silence, except for one sound, a metronome or heartbeat. A metronome usually will have the same affect as a heartbeat, because it can increase or decrease in speed or pulse, but will always carry the beat. The moviegoer will see this scene, and the total silence except for the heartbeat or metronome, will leave the person feeling like the driver is coming to his end. Heartbeats represent life and the possible cessation of life. Just by choosing a different form of music, the whole scene is changed. Mozart was a child prodigy.
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
situation. There are many places in society that are stressful. A doctors' waiting room, airport terminals and security gates, hotel check-in desks, telephone customer service calls, car rentals, insurance agencies, are all stressful. In all the preceding places or situations stressful things are happening, and the owners of these businesses all do one thing to counter that stress, play soothing music. Music like this is often referred to as "on-hold" music. It received that name simply because every place that makes you wait, plays it, because it has a calming effect. This music puts the subject in a mood of relaxation, calmness, and leaves them feeling carefree. This is done because the business owners want happy customers, so they manipulate them without the customers even knowing it. A dentist doesn't want to work on a patient that is freaking out about a root canal, so they play it. A doctor who already needs to break bad news to a patient wants them to be calm and relaxed for the news to come, so they play it in the waiting rooms. Hertz wants their customers driving off happily on their vacation, so it's played. "On-hold" music has the ability to sooth and relax. At the first Vatican reform, known as Vatican I, a debate topic was the use of music in mass. Some thought that mass is for worshipping, and not to be entertained and have a good time. Others thought that by listening to music it helps put people in the mood to worship God. To this day Catholics across the world sing along to music and song. Obviously since we still listen to music in mass today, they were right, it puts the worshippers in the mood to worship. As one readies themselves to accept the body of Christ, they think of their sins, and then get ready to worship the spirit they are about to ingest by listening to these lyrics, "Holy, holy, holy Lord, God of Power and God of Might, Heaven and earth are full of you glory, Hosanna in the highest, Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest." These words combined with the riveting sound of pipe organs truly puts the Catholic in the mood to worship God. Music has the unique ability to affect the listeners' mood. There are many elements in life and on earth that are similar to music, and affect mood. Angry songs can pump up an athlete. Music can act as a time machine and whisk a person to the past. A scene to a movie can change infinitely depending on the background music. Classical music can actually make a person smarter, and put them in a mood to complete difficult tasks. Music can accelerate the success of a business by keeping customers happy and relaxed, by playing music that puts them in a relaxed mood. The lyrics of a song in mass can create a heavenly connection between worshipper and God. Music has the unique ability to affect the listeners' mood.