Theofpurposemusic
Question # 1
How can music help people feel joy?
https://theconversation.com/good-vibrations-the-role-of-music-in-einsteins-thinking-54725
Albert Einstein, who was an accomplished violinist, said that nothing gave him as much pleasure as music.
http://ezinearticles.com/?Music-And-Its-Influence-On-Behavior&id=733185
People get a little more energy when listening to happy music.
Listening to happy music can make us perceive others as being happy.
https://medium.com/the-mission/how-music-affects-your-brain-plus-11-artists-to-listen-to-at-work-4f0a5081d9e9#.p93hlz83f
High energy
Low energyAlert Excited HappyStressedNervousSad Depressed Tired Calm Relaxed Satisfied Angry
How can music help people reduce stress?
Question # 2
Music can relieve pain, calm our nerves, and promote blood circulation.
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(15)60169-6/fulltext http://www.helium.com/items/820665-musics-influence-on-behavior
.
https://psmag.com/heres-evidence-that-music-training-dampens-young-kids-aggressive-behavior-b4f853502cc4#.moesikt2c
Research with a group taking music lessons and a group studying natural sciences found that the young musicians were less likely to respond to provocation with aggression as they grew older
http://www.spring.org.uk/2013/09/10-magical-effects-music-has-on-the-mind.php
23 studies
almost 1,500
A of covering patients found that heart rate, blood pressure in heart disease patients.
and anxiety
review
listening to music reduced
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2015/01/07/music-lessons-spur-emotional-and-behavioral-growth-in-children-new-study-says/
Research shows that when a child trained on an instrument, it accelerated cortical organization in attention skill, anxiety management and emotional control.
How can music help people feel excited?
Question # 3
Research shows that when a task is clearly defined and repetitive in nature, music is useful. An assembly line worker’s mood may increase when he/she listens to his/her favourite music – and thereby increase his/her productivity doing the repetitive task.
https://www.fastcompany.com/3032868/how-music-affects-your-productivity
Example
High energy Alert
Low energy
Excited Happy Nervous StressedSadDepressed Tired Calm Relaxed Satisfied Angry
Question # 4
How can music help people people move?
The neurologist Oliver Sacks described how music can animate people with Parkinson’s disease, who cannot otherwise move.
https://www.oliversacks.com/oliver-sacks-books/musicophilia-oliver-sacks/
http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/walking-helps-us-think
Listening to songs with high tempos motivates us to run faster.
How can music help people remember better?
Question # 5
Music therapy helps Alzheimer patients remember.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/story/2012/12/28/music-as-therapy.html
The neurologist Oliver Sacks described how music can calm and organize people, whose memories are ravaged by Alzheimer’s or amnesia.
https://www.oliversacks.com/oliver-sacks-books/musicophilia-oliver-sacks/
http://www.creativitypost.com/education/music_helps_memory http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23860945
A study found that adults learned a new language more effectively when they sang the words instead of spoke them.
6 months of piano training significantly improved the cognitive performance in adults aged 60 – 85 years.
https://youtu.be/T8wzQJxrPgw
http://www.spring.org.uk/2014/11/musics-amazing-effect-on-long-term-memory-and-mental-abilities-in-general.php
A study shows that in the parietal lobes - which are associated with the senses, memory and attention - the neural response of musicians are faster than that of non-musicians.
The study adds to a growing body of evidence showing that musical training has a wonderful positive effect on cognitive abilities.
How can music help people listen better?
Question # 6
http://www.news-medical.net/news/20160616/Music-instruction-improves-cognitive-socio-emotional-development-in-young-children.aspx http://time.com/3634995/study-kids-engaged-music-class-for-benefits-northwestern/
When children learn to play music, their brains begin to hear and process sounds that they couldn't otherwise hear
.
.
http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/07/unpacking-the-science-how-playing-music-changes-the-learning-brain/
Learning to play an instrument helps people to better perceive speech and understand emotions in the voice
Sylvain Moreno has demonstrated links between children’s experiences in music and their auditory skills.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/769046140 location 4900.
Question # 7
How can music help people speak better?
https://www.oliversacks.com/oliver-sacks-books/musicophilia-oliver-sacks/
The neurologist Oliver Sacks described how music can give words to stroke patients who cannot otherwise speak.
Musicians have shown enhanced language skills compared to non-musicians.
http://www.spring.org.uk/2014/06/musical-training-increases-executive-brain-function-in-children-and-adults.php
A study of 8 to 11-year-olds found that those who had extra-curricular music classes developed higher verbal IQ and visual abilities than those with no musical training.
http://www.spring.org.uk/2013/09/10-magical-effects-music-has-on-the-mind.php http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0003566
Mahajan, Vijay: Africa Rising, p. 131.
This means that advertising has to move beyond words to emotion, music, images, and other nonverbal messages. In meeting this challenge, remember that youth everywhere speak one tongue: the language of music.
In Nigeria, there are 250 languages.
https://www.racquelroberts.com/what-is-the-purpose-of-music/
Through the years, music has also served cultures as a medium to tell stories which should be passed down through their generations.
Question # 8
How can music help people to connect?
During the lockdowns due to the COVID-19 pandemic, nothing helped connect people and break the sense of isolation as much as music – sung or played from balconies or through online videos.
https://theconversation.com/lockdown-singing-the-science-of-why-music-helps-us-connect-in-isolation-137312
Question # 9
How can music help people become more helpful?
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/08/160823125215.htmhttps://hbr.org/2016/08/upbeat-music-can-make-employees-more-cooperative
When people sing together or listen to happy music together, they become more cooperative and less self-interested.
Singing together appears to inspire spontaneous cooperative and helpful behavior among 4-year-olds.
http://www.psmag.com/blogs/news-blog/the-sounds-that-bind-new-evidence-of-why-we-love-music-63907
http://m.pom.sagepub.com/content/early/2013/07/10/0305735613482024
Intense music experiences cause long-term changes to occur in values people have.
How can music help people think creatively?
Question # 10
Music reinforces your confidence in the ability to create.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/13/opinion/sunday/is-music-the-key-to-success.html
http://www.physorg.com/news142185056.html
Musicians use more parts of their brain more frequently than the average people.
Question # 11
How can music help people show their personality?
In a study participants were asked to judge each other’s personality based solely on their list of 10 favorite songs.
Participants correctly identified the personality traits of their study partners.
httpshttps://www.bbvaopenmind.com/en/humanities/arts/what-is-the-purpose-of-music/://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9280.2006.01691.x