About Music And Health Again

About Music And Health Again.
Certain aspects of music have the same influence on men and women even when they live in very different societies, a new study reveals. Researchers asked 40 Mbenzele Pygmies in the Congolese rainforest to heed to short clips of music. They were asked to do as one is told to their own music and to unfamiliar Western music. Mbenzele Pygmies do not have access to radio, video or electricity. The same 19 selections of music were also played to 40 amateur or master musicians in Montreal.

Musicians were included in the Montreal group because Mbenzele Pygmies could be considered musicians as they all whistle regularly for ceremonial purposes, the study authors explained. Both groups were asked to speed how the music made them feel using emoticons, such as happy, sad or excited faces. There were significant differences between the two groups as to whether a definitive piece of music made them feel good or bad.

However, both groups had equivalent responses to how exciting or calming they found the different types of music. "Our major origination is that listeners from very different groups both responded to how exciting or calming they felt the music to be in similar ways," Hauke Egermann, of the Technical University of Berlin, said in a tidings release from McGill University in Montreal. Egermann conducted character of the study as a postdoctoral fellow at McGill.