Touching By the Sound Of Music


From simple folksongs to the complex sound of symphony orchestra, music has been created by every known society. Almost every pivotal event in life can be signposted with music, whether it’s a joyful occasion like a wedding or a sad one such as a funeral. Music, which consistently emerges in surveys as the most popular form of art, can be used not only to tap into an emotion a person is already feeling but to manipulate it in a powerful way. Yet the existence of music mystifies scientist. So what effect does music serve for us?
Psychologists are united in one belief that music speaks to the heart. Researchers showed recently that certain pieces of music bring psychological changes in the body that correspond to certain emotions. “sad” pieces caused the pulse to slacken, the blood pressure to rise and the temperature to drop, which is exactly what happens when a sense of sadness sets in. “happy” songs did the opposite, inducing a cheery feeling. Some how, music can tap into sensitive emotional circuits.
Scientists call music as “auditory cheese cake”, a confection of sounds put together to tickle faculties that our brain already possesses. Songs with lyrical appeal to a brain already attuned to language. The ear is sensitive to harmonies and sounds in the natural world, such as bird song and even thunder, echo such harmonies; we derive pleasure from patterns and rhythm, and repetitive sounds appeal to the ear in the same way that a repeated drawing appeals to the eye.
This is how music moves us. Music can accompany us in different events of life. Music is food for our soul and can play with our emotion easily. Music seems to help us to live longer and pass on our genes more efficiently. May be mysteries on sound of music suggest the reason why music rather than any other from of sound inspires such delight.