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  • Essay / music and emotions - 1411

    How can different types of music affect people's emotions? Music can affect people in different ways. In a way, it's good for the body, both physically and mentally. In another way, people think it's nice to listen to. In more detail, music has personalities that can express what people feel. There are many observations involving different ways of expressing human emotions. Emotions are very interesting things, especially when they involve music. Music can have many personalities, affect people's emotions, and be used as therapy. If music reveals emotions, it is not a normal emotion like any other (Stecker 273). Musical expression can be considered a traditionalized phenomenon (Stecker 273). There are common questions about how many or what kinds of emotions music can create (Stecker 273). People wonder about the possibility of music being an element of a certain pattern (Stecker 273). Which can be a very emotional pattern (Stecker 273). It can range from hysterical laughter, to worry, to surprise, to unusual panic, to strange sorrow, to acceptance, and finally to serenity (Stecker 273). Musical expression can consist of a single personality instead of multiple personalities. The concept is that music indicates a designated emotion. That is, if a particular listener listens to music and hears the identity of a certain emotion. Musical expression has a wide variety of identities. People can take these identities and make them their own emotions. Music affects the body and its health. Listening to certain music can have an effect on heart rate (www.bellaonline.com/articles/). Heart rate may increase or decrease (www.bellaonline.com/articles/). Rock music had an impact on people... middle of paper ...... side of people, who are usually excited by happiness in the central case (Matravers 174). Music is not the only part of feeling; it simply provokes it (Matravers 174). When the volume of music increases, emotions rise (Matravers 174). As the music diminishes, so do the emotions (Matravers 174). The connection between music and emotions is like a mirror (Matravers 174). Whatever happens to music, human feelings will follow. In conclusion of the arguments and observations, musical expression consists of presenting the characteristics of emotion in appearance. It turns out that people listen to music for a specific purpose and that it has an effect on psychological emotions. If there is a case in which music shows emotional qualities without reference to feelings, there is a case of happy music not being powerful in happiness..