How did music appear? Was it just a happy accident? (If so, why did it become so popular?) Or was it the result of a strange necessity? Can it be that although we do not eat it, drink it or breathe it we needed it? And if we do, why is it so?
The history of the effect music has upon us begins with a story: we all know the story of the nightingale which cured the seek emperor with its beautiful songs. It may continue with a very common thing: since the oldest times mothers use singing to soothe their babies. Have you ever wondered about that? Or is it such a natural thing that you've never asked why? It is partly the mother's voice that soothes the baby, but the babies are usually receptive to other people singing as well. So it's more than the voice that matters.
Among the pioneer studies on this topic was the one made in the 1970s at the Colorado College in Denver. Those in charge with this study concluded that plants responded to music and even had preferences. Musical styles such as classical music, jazz or Indian music caused the plants to grow larger and healthier and even pointed in the direction of the music source, just as they do with the sun. Hard rock or heavy metal caused the plants to grow slower and away from the music source. During the experiment the quantity of music seemed also important: plants exposed to music for 3 hours a day evolved a lot better than those exposed for 8 hours a day. These results made some say that plants are a lot more sensitive than we believed them to be and that they are capable of having preferences. Still, other scientists think that plants do not have preferences and that they respond rather to vibrations' frequency than to musical types.
Animals also seem to respond to music. An experiment held in the zoo of the Chicago's Lincoln Park showed that even the fiercest animals find comfort in music. They all stood still and listened when the rhythm was slower and they changed a bit their reaction when more rhythmical music was played.
Today many scientists encourage us to play music for babies even before they're born, this helping in the apparition of new pathways in the brain. They also say that knowing to play an instrument (like the PRS guitars) can improve our abilities of spatial analysis. But can music heal? That's probably a question we will be able to answer only after we answer to another question: what is the link between our moods and our health state? Until than we can only be sure that music sounds great for our souls and can sometime sooth a broken heart.
The history of the effect music has upon us begins with a story: we all know the story of the nightingale which cured the seek emperor with its beautiful songs. It may continue with a very common thing: since the oldest times mothers use singing to soothe their babies. Have you ever wondered about that? Or is it such a natural thing that you've never asked why? It is partly the mother's voice that soothes the baby, but the babies are usually receptive to other people singing as well. So it's more than the voice that matters.
Among the pioneer studies on this topic was the one made in the 1970s at the Colorado College in Denver. Those in charge with this study concluded that plants responded to music and even had preferences. Musical styles such as classical music, jazz or Indian music caused the plants to grow larger and healthier and even pointed in the direction of the music source, just as they do with the sun. Hard rock or heavy metal caused the plants to grow slower and away from the music source. During the experiment the quantity of music seemed also important: plants exposed to music for 3 hours a day evolved a lot better than those exposed for 8 hours a day. These results made some say that plants are a lot more sensitive than we believed them to be and that they are capable of having preferences. Still, other scientists think that plants do not have preferences and that they respond rather to vibrations' frequency than to musical types.
Animals also seem to respond to music. An experiment held in the zoo of the Chicago's Lincoln Park showed that even the fiercest animals find comfort in music. They all stood still and listened when the rhythm was slower and they changed a bit their reaction when more rhythmical music was played.
Today many scientists encourage us to play music for babies even before they're born, this helping in the apparition of new pathways in the brain. They also say that knowing to play an instrument (like the PRS guitars) can improve our abilities of spatial analysis. But can music heal? That's probably a question we will be able to answer only after we answer to another question: what is the link between our moods and our health state? Until than we can only be sure that music sounds great for our souls and can sometime sooth a broken heart.
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