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Be it Elliott Smith or Queen, classical or dub step, there's usually a clear understanding that some songs are sad, and some songs are happy. But what is it about the music that makes us feel these feelings we're feeling? You might think it has something to do with the notes or how our brain's natural response to these sounds, but you're wrong. Or at the very least incomplete in your thinking. We've just been culturally trained to respond to music in certain ways because if you ignore the lyrics, music itself doesn't actually contain any emotion at all. Watch the episode to find out more!
Sources:
Transylvanian Music: www.academia.ed...
Emotional responses to music: The need to consider underlying mechanisms - Patrik N. Juslin Daniel Västfjäll
Its OK To Be Smart "Why Music Moves Us" • Why Does Music Move Us?
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Further Reading List:
The Music in Our Lives - Kathleen Marie Higgins
Exploring the Habitus of Listening : Anthropological Perspectives - Judith Becker
TOWARDS A NEUROBIOLOGY OF MUSICAL EMOTIONS - Isabelle Peretz
MUSIC INDUCED EMOTIONS: SOME CURRENT ISSUES AND CROSS-MODAL COMPARISONS - Manuela M. Marin and Joydeep Bhattacharya
Music acquisition: effects of enculturation and formal training on development - Erin E. Hannon and Laurel J. Trainor
Handbook of Music and Emotion: Theory, Research, Applications - Patrik N. Juslin
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"Carry On Carillon" by Roglok (www.roglok.net)
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Dramatic Chipmunk • Video
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Disney Mulan - I'll Make A Man Out Of You | HD • Video
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Justice - Stress • Justice - Stress - † (...
Britten Lachrymae Op 48 for Viola and Piano - Ricardo Zwietisch • Video
Music & Lyrics By Stewie Griffin • Music & Lyrics By Stew...
BEETHOVEN - Symphony No. 2 - Leonard Bernstein (3-4) • Video
Eruption Guitar Solo--Eddie Van Halen • Eruption Guitar Solo--...
Elvis Presley - If I Can Dream Acapella (Vocals) • Video
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@adambrooker3600 9 лет назад

As someone who has studied music for the past 4 years in college this would be my best scientific response to the question at hand. When a note is played you are not actually just hearing that single pitch but a combination of frequencies known as the harmonic series. There is a fundamental note, the one we perceive, and then an infinite number of frequencies above that pitch. The closer a note is to the fundamental pitch in the harmonic series, the more pleasing that sound is to us as humans. When we look at a major and minor chord built on the same fundamental (I'll use C) we can see how this plays out. C Major is spelled C E G, while C minor is spelled C, E flat, G. If we look at the harmonic series of C, E is the fifth note while E flat is the 19th. Being that E flat is so much farther from the fundamental note, it is inherently more dissonant than E. Dissonance is music is what creates negative feelings while consonant intervals and chords are more often utilized in happier music. Hope this explains a few things!

@JonathanWeberese 8 лет назад

It really comes down to a simple thing. They have already found that the brain responds to music similarly to how it responds to language. And so think about it, most of the information we convey is not through words. It's the tonality. In western culture, someone who is upset or depressed has shorter intervals that could be easily be mimicked by the first notes of a minor scale. Rhythm is pretty simple, too. Anyone who has studied poetry known that languages have rhythm. It's partially how you are able to organize distinct words for a mesh of sounds. You don't have to have a delay between every single word, because you separate each of the words using rhythm. So music is basically what happens if you take verbal communication, get rid of the words, and distill what is left into a set of more pure tones and precise rhythms. In fact, birds, whose communication is based on exactly this principle, exhibit musical taste. And that matches with the cultural component. Different cultures use different tonalities to convey different emotions, and each language has its own rhythm. The globalization of certain musical tastes may be due to the globalization of certain cultures and languages.

@AustinTexas6thStreet 8 лет назад

Yep, there definitely Are emotional responses hardwired in our brains that music can trigger and it relates some to language. Also, there is So much more to it that I can not even begin to start with it here...

@TheMrrubencio 8 лет назад

Wow man your comment is pure gold!

@jessykaros 6 лет назад

Jonathan Weber u should have ur own channel

@Diamondragan 5 лет назад

I take great pleasure in helping this comment remain visible.

@tnk1205 8 лет назад

Hi! You are such a great presenter! I could not believe I got (and understood) every your word pronounced with such a high speed (as Im Russian for me it is really speedy). Besides the very interesting content... you are not only entertained me, you boosted my language confidence as well. Thank you!

@AustinTexas6thStreet 8 лет назад

I'm American and I find his speech Very speedy...not sure where exactly but this dude must be from the northeastern part of USA. It's not a problem, just very fast speech compared to what many of us in other regions are used to...

@ThePunkPatriot 9 лет назад

There's a tribe in South America (sorry, I don't remember, it was covered in my ethnomusicology 101 10 years ago) in which all music is in the minor mode, and the difference between sad songs and happy songs is the speed at which they are played.

@EricLeafericson 10 лет назад

A Clockwork Orange plays with this idea a lot. Particularly how the meaning of the Beethoven symphonies Alex listens to will change depending on the situation.

@AustinTexas6thStreet 8 лет назад

This video does not even scratch the surface of music and its emotional effects on people...I realize it can't be tackled in a video like this so not a criticism, just truth. These vids are like the philosophical equivalent of "story starters"....people can take the concept and go further with it. There is SO much to this concept it is just overwhelming...

@joelproko 9 лет назад

I would think that major vs. minor chords vs. dissonance is related to perky/mellow/grating in a way similar to the Bouba-Kiki Effect that appears in language. Most (or all) people accross would think that "kiki" probably refers to the shape with the sharp points, because it "sounds more like it", but it doesn't mean that sharp, pointy things have "k" or "i" in their names accross the globe. In much the same way, we might have "hard-wired" responses to harmonic vs. dissonant sounds, maybe even major vs. minor chords, which with increasing immersion in culture generally get overpowered by the meanings and responses the aquired culture defines.

@harishkrishnamoorthi5199 11 лет назад

The best part of the video: "Sources in the description." Extremely refreshing to see, hear, and click.

@AS__77 10 лет назад

Just the musical part of Johnny Cash's Hurt could make Richard Simmons suicidal.

@Nik930714 11 лет назад

In some ironic twist, this video was uploaded right after me and my brother finished a very long conversations about major and minor chords, feelings in music, how power chords are neutral in therms of feelings, and a lot of other musical theory stuff. So good timing :)

@iamarshadazad 6 лет назад

hey! it is a nice video. i have an alternate theory. music is a language and just like words different musics are assigned different meanings through social evolution. just like words, they are there and only over the time they mean something. gytdutufyfuyf means nothing and so does each keystroke as i type this comment.

@dylanjdmayne6760 10 лет назад

In a major scale of music, the frequencies between the notes given in Hz divide into easier fractions for our brains to interpret than in a minor scale, thus the level of stress that we put on the brain to listen to the music has an effect on its mood.

@jolieolieo 8 лет назад

yeah, but im pretty sure that joy division is inherently depressing as hell.

@anoukfleur2513 8 лет назад

+Jolie Tomaselli Okay, but is that because of the music itself or because of the lyrics?

@imrolimra 9 лет назад

I think one of the things that influences the mood of music is how the notes are being played or sung. Sometimes the techniques used by the musician to play the notes mimics human voice in certain emotions and people can empathize with that, thus creating the emotional response. The structure of intervals and harmony gives beauty to the piece but not necessarily informs the audience of the emotional content.

@superearthbender 10 лет назад

That's a stupid point, because it applies to everything. Nothing is inherently anything. Everything is a representation of the system it exists within, so in an alien mind, a sad song could sound like nothing at all.

@superearthbender 10 лет назад

***** The concept: "Blank isn't actually Blank". Fill Blank with any noun, and this applies because there is always an argument, a perspective, which describes the same object differently. Using Sad Music as a specific example as if it was special for that reason, is pointless.

@superearthbender 10 лет назад

***** No, that works, I was going to say car, but it's a hard concept to describe. Yes, a car described with different variables may not be a car by someone (or something) else's rule-set.

@PrimetimePaskell 11 лет назад

I think this helps to explain why I'm not as moved by none lyric music as I am lyric music. This has been enlightening

@linguaphilly 9 лет назад

This video! It motivated me to do my final essay on emotion and music (: And thanks to this video I also found the best site ever made: academia.edu! Right now I'm discussing the BRECVEM-model by Juslin and Västfjäll in the essay, a model that explains the psychological mechanisms that play an important role in music induced emotions. Sounds pretty smart, doesn't it? haha (shut up let me value my own intelligence)

@steppeonyt 11 лет назад

i believe that the emotions we feel when hearing music, are strongly affected by television, movies and so on. growing up, i watched many movies and television series, and was "trained" by the images i saw to perceive the music in the background as "fitting to the situation". so now when i hear a certain type of music it "recalls" the emotional images i have from my experiences.

@SacredAmbulance 8 лет назад

nurture not nature nurture not nature nurture not nature

@Diamondragan 5 лет назад

Why not both?

@k1rbyguy 11 лет назад

I must say that brake squeals and explosions DO affect me. They're freaking awesome, and they fill me with joy.

@gralha_ 8 лет назад

I wish he'd speak slower

@TakaG 7 лет назад

And I wish the editing were slower paced.

@whitefang3602 6 лет назад

I know this is extremely late but .75x speed

@Richard_Nickerson 5 лет назад

I wish he spoke faster

@braininavat314 11 лет назад

Awesome episode! A related issue: is the emotion we feel when listening to sad music really the same thing as what we feel when we're genuinely sad? What I mean is that when listening to a sad piece or song, simultaneously to "feeling sad", I'm still enjoying myself and appreciating the beauty of the music. This seems very different from cases when I'm sad about a real event.

@lianatomlinson8629 9 лет назад

you're right.They say "pumped up kicks" sounds like a happy song but I feel nostalgic when I listen to it

@Khann119 11 лет назад

Mike your enthusiasm is infectious.

@HeroGuy3 11 лет назад

This ties in reasonably well with the way I respond to a lot of music in content such as cartoons, film or anime. initially I may hate the music, but after finishing the content and enjoying it for other reasons I will actually go back and listen to the music and enjoy it this time around, simply because it reminds me of the emotion i felt at the time the music was played in the content, or at least thats what I think.

@mythirdchannel 11 лет назад

I read the title of this episode, and before even watching it I was thinking - no, it's beautiful.

@bralliercat 11 лет назад

"I'm not crying, it's just raining on my face." -the Tennant gif

@Ratiosaurus 11 лет назад

When I heard Bartok's 4th string quartet for the first time, I thought I could never listen to this kind of music, it sounded like cacophony. But after a while I started to get it, and now he's my favourite composer. Too bad nowadays people don't take time to get to know a musical piece better - if they aren't hooked after first few seconds, it's over. That's why we have so many almost identical songs today.

@toughorcs 11 лет назад

I was going to respond with an intelligent perspective, but, as the video went on, you touched on everything I would have said. I have a degree in music performance too. I HEART YOUR CHANNEL TO THE MAX LIMIT

@opaldoesnotrhyme 9 лет назад

There's actually been studies on a specific device called an appoggiatura. It's apart of the formula for a "tearjerker" song. The appoggiatura is the note that clashes with the melody and then the resolve, which supposedly causes the reaction in your brain that makes you sad.

@versipellisrex 11 лет назад

Agreed! Nearly all listeners assume that Samuel Barber's 'Adagio for Strings' is among the most melancholic music ever written, and no doubt for countless viewers of 'The Mission,' it is indeed. However when Barber wrote it, he did not intended as such.

@VlRGlL 11 лет назад

I think that emotion and culture both play a part in how we perceive music, in that the more basic music is the more primal we perceive it but the more complex a piece becomes the more culture takes over

@tsugumi10027 11 лет назад

I mostly feel the emotions through the lyrics... Music is like an aid that helps me feel the emotions better.

@salmtommi 11 лет назад

I've read about this some, and I think it's deeply ingrained in the way we communicate. Speech has immense value in any culture and, given its vocal and physical essence, has produced a similar model of responding to music. Where music doesn't convey meaningin as straightforward and simple a way as speech usually does, the reactions are also more primal and emotional. One could also argue this about pictures, though they tend to often represent more specific, streamlined messages than music.

@dedefh23 11 лет назад

I think that the emotions that we find in Music are memories, because we "tag" music to events in our life. Like the first time you hear a song through the radio or internet.

@Ernstmithrandir 6 лет назад

Amazing video! There are 2 more mechanisms cited in the Oxford Handbook of Music Psychology (2016) : rhythmic synchronization and aesthetic evaluation :)

@kchris205 11 лет назад

The song "Hey Ya" by Outkast I thought was a happy song for a long time, because I was listening to the music instead of the lyrics. The Obediah Parker cover makes the music fit the lyrics, making it much more somber. To me, this proves that music can, inherently, have emotion.

@Nadiamelyna 6 лет назад

literally youre a genius, love your channel

@rence234 11 лет назад

musical emotion comes from ourselves and how we perceive it

@WelinX 7 лет назад

Bulgarians do not listen to folk music in order to feel a positive or negative effects on them. The folk music was made to dance to. It's not intended to be listened on a daily basis and no one does it. There's many national dances called "horo" which dance to the exact folk rhytms.

@OppaiBros 11 лет назад

Nature and nurture definitely play a part in how we respond to music.

@Frankiigii 11 лет назад

I would say our perception of music is based mostly on our culture and personal experiences. But as for sounds, bells, drums, bird song, traffic etc. can all have an emotional impact on the person hearing it.

@pattymac5 11 лет назад

The Buffy episode "The Body" was an amazing episode, probably the best of the series, that had no background music. At first it threw me off because it was different but in the end it allowed me to develop my own emotions to what was going on (without the "sad" music to queue my feelings.) It opened my eyes to how the music in movies really shapes the emotions I feel while watching.

@lcvamp242 9 лет назад

Visual imagery was what turned me into Dubstep. I couldn't stand the genre until I saw "Dubstep Guns." Once I had a visual metaphor for the synesthesia to lock onto, it was beautiful beyond belief.

@LyraCheesestrings76 11 лет назад

i feel like experience of music is based on your previous experiences and current situation. "so you had a bad day" never affected me, until one day i was having a CRAPPY day, and i started bawling. some soft rock songs make a lot of people cry, but have never affected me,because my previous experiences with soft rock (my parents listening to it every day for several years) have turned me off to it.

@JoonieBrow 11 лет назад

This kind of reminds me of a class on live musical performance I took where two Cello students had everyone in the class listen to the same piece of music twice, and attempt to create a visual representation of what they'd heard. It was pretty funny comparing the differences in each person's perception of the piece originally, and how drastically that could change as the same notes were interpreted differently. It's the interaction between a person and a piece that creates emotion.

@MrFakERussian 11 лет назад

I'm in a long-distance relationship with a girl who moves back in August. She's been fine for almost two years, and we've taken the song "I Will Wait-Mumford&Sons" to mean so much to us. Every time I hear it I feel happy and excited, but before we started dating it didn't mean much at all.

@KingIsMe613 11 лет назад

Another quick example of this is the xx's self-titled album. One of the major musical motif's in this album is the use of silence as an instrument. The xx uses this silence to create a wide range of emotions, including sadness, nostalgia, and tranquility. This shows that while there may be a general association with sounds and emotion, it can be manipulated, showing that music doesn't have inherit emotional qualities to it, which is what makes music so interesting as a medium of self-expression.

@BobertForApples 11 лет назад

The other day I was sitting home alone at night listening to a song that made me feel like crying. Today I was sitting in the park looking at trees thinking about how nice the blossom looks like and the song I was listening to made me feel really relaxed and... content? like not quite 'happy' but definitely not sad. Then I noticed they were the same song. I think I just wanted to feel sad when I listened to it alone, but in the park I wanted to be happier, so I was.

@davidoblue1 11 лет назад

comes from the energy released from the base of our spine.

@raccoonoverlordellie 11 лет назад

I'm listening to this while I write an essay and I'm doing much better than usual. You should look into why that is... Great show by the way! I'm a massive fan!

@buntawrx 10 лет назад

I live in Transylvania and I never thought about this music thing. The fact is that we don't quite play this kind of music on such occasions. Even so, I think that there's a slight difference between music played on a wedding and the other played on a funeral.

@MrJordanport 9 лет назад

Reminds me of the Kuleshov Effect. The practice that context is what creates emotion using a blank stare and various context clues. What you feel is more than what you do, especially when a range of acceptance effects your intake of new data.

@Loki4226 11 лет назад

As a musician, when I started ear training we were always taught minor=sad and major=happy, however after years of studying, and listening to minor and major chords over and over again minor chords I can no longer equate to sad, outside a context of a song, or moment because they just sounds like a different texture or colour than a major chord. It's sorta like comparing red and blue, one isn't sadder or happier, it just is, and within a context we can add all sorts of emotion.

@Isissa125 11 лет назад

I like to think that the music's emotion does not come from the raw notes itself, rather the way the composer has put them together. The emotion for me, at least when I listen to music comes from seeing things from the composer's viewpoint, not the way it sounds or the way the lyrics sound.

@mkwarlock 11 лет назад

I think that the best proof that we aren't hardwired to feel certain emotions when hearing a certain kind of music is how our memories linked to a certain song/melody entirely determine how we feel about it. For example, many people consider "Mad World" a sad song, but to me it's a happy one because it reminds me of my childhood; on the other hand, I feel sad when I hear "Welcome to the Jungle" because I've heard it 5 times during a very crappy party.

@barbaraequer4232 11 лет назад

Me, as a student of communications, have been constantly exposed to the question: "How can we subvert the system with our knowledge of media?" I do believe your channel has found a , small but significant way to do so Well done

@xilix 11 лет назад

I have aspergers, and one of the things that I noticed at a young age was that certain tones, sensations and sounds (car engines, jet engines, certain frequency tones, certain smells, sounds that denote "power", list goes on) give me the same cathartic emotional response as music would. Many things that most neurotypical people would find completely mundane and meaningless can send me into a full-on cathartic response. I've read other autistic people experience this as well.

@ryanwiggs594 9 лет назад

I think part of imitation theory that breaks down when you include other non musical aspects of the world only break down this theory because they are ignored and not respected, and that it can indeed evoke similar feelings in people who are paying attention.

@auvyx 8 лет назад

This is so helpful! I'm doing an assignment about multimodal communication, and this is exactly what I was looking for! Thank you!! Say hello to a new subscriber! :D

@KoraktheMad 11 лет назад

Music that is supposed to be sad can be depending on who is listening to it. It also depends on what is going on around them as well. Certain music notes can create emotions within someone in which can make them happy, sad, angry, etc. . . but their surroundings play a major role as well.

@viobliterator 10 лет назад

when I was a baby, my parents would play minor chords and I would /instantly/ start to cry. I've continued this music sensitivity to this day, so I am absolutely sure that music does not affect me because of culture .

@jgcooper 11 лет назад

"Effect is often confused with “affect”. The latter is used to convey the influence over existing ideas, emotions and entities; the former indicates the manifestation of new or original ideas or entities" - wiktionary

@vfn 11 лет назад

With the general tempo of Idea Channel I honestly do not believe they would transfer that well into 45 minute episodes, part of what makes Idea Channel as good as it is, is getting a point across in a somewhat short period.

@kbharmony 11 лет назад

part 2. Take the music of Everclear. Sad stuff, although you wouldn't know it without paying attention to the lyrics. And yet once you recognize the emotions of the song, you can almost hear the sadness in the music itself. This demonstrates how the author (Art Alexakis) uses music to express his unique perception of his life and his emotions, that a listener might not immediately recognize in the same fashion. Fascinating stuff. Big fan of your work.

@ereignisnamenlos9565 11 лет назад

the Georgian folk music from Turkey you expose it's impossible to find on the entire internet! :( the hungary music from Deben Bhattacharya is amazing, you're such a very good researcher :) XX

@elfinelvin27 11 лет назад

When the previews for Schindler's List came out I was stunned by the music. I didn't watch the movie until recently, but the music I have played many, many times. At first I wondered why I liked this sad music so much. After a time I came to realize I was actually feeling a tremendous power and excitement when I listened to the music. I have since found this is often the case when I listen to music in a minor key. Definitely not sad.

@firewordsparkler 11 лет назад

CRAIG!!!!!!!! Also, great video. You might want to also take into account the amount of times someone has heard the song, because that can really affect how they feel about it. My favorite band of all time has one really famous song, and that song now has no effect on me, while the majority of their other songs do since I hear them less regularly. I became so sick of the Bruno Mars song that I began singing about how ugly people were in the same melody, despite really liking the song at first.

@Sylumdota 11 лет назад

I believe that music can carry emotion; I heard a song sung by a couple, the love in it was almost palatable.

@MrCalijor 11 лет назад

I think that music, as an art (as opposed to a way to get money) can in fact convey emotion. It plays off of the "cultural training" as you put it in order to invoke feelings or, just plays off of the producer's feelings toward certain sounds in order to make what that person thinks (and they're not necessarily wrong) is equal to what they're trying to convey. Now, it may not be consistent but that's part of what makes it beautiful and truly emotional in my opinion.

@ceceandcheng 11 лет назад

I discovered, listening to Captain Beefheart's music (which is sometimes so avant-garde and far-out you have no clue on how to interpret it), that sometimes the same song can sound sad or happy depending on the day, your own mood, the speed of the wind and the way light comes through the window.

@ZionG4eva 11 лет назад

I absolutely agree with you about several factors besides the "music" itself influencing the response it invokes. I don't think I've ever had anyone break down and/or begin to cry while listening to "Barbie Girl by Aqua", except of course if that was the song the person was listening to when he/she found their ex in bed with their best friend. On another note, with this severely digitalized age we're in, it's really hard not to get prejudiced about a song based on how others perceive it.

@GalaxyNewsTelevision 11 лет назад

At my grandads funeral my dad picked a song to be played as they took the coffin away "Bring me sunshine" I haven't heard a song as sad since that day.

@wangabo123 11 лет назад

Music didn't have any effect on me until grade 6 when I had to do a show and tell in music class about my favourite song the previous year. At that point I thought I was weird so I had to start searching for songs that I liked which was plenty hard since there was no RU-vid back then and my knowledge of the internet was almost non existent. It took me 3 years (grade 5 to grade 8) to slowly find music I enjoyed. Just a story.

@MrGuitarCarl 11 лет назад

This deserves another episode.

@BuckDaubenmire 11 лет назад

I finally recognize two of the album covers on the wall. The one on the left is Ballad of the Space Babies by Jim Guthrie. The second is Funeral by Arcade Fire

@luanasilva7341 4 года назад

Maybe it also have something to do with voice intonation, like, when we sing "happy notes" we make sounds that are similar to the intonation we use to speak when where happy. Same goes to sad, bored, angry etc.

@melorafoy7109 7 лет назад

For me it often has to do with when I was exposed to the music. Especially 12-16. Some bring on emotions because of what I associate them with. Sometimes it is a word, phrase or concept in music with lyrics. Points when the intensity or speed changes. One examples is Born to Run. There is a pause of several seconds, then 1,2,3,4 and the music picks up again.

@patrickcummins79 7 лет назад

Hungover As The Oven In Maida Vale - most depressing and eerie song I've ever heard..

@Demonslayer232 11 лет назад

Fun fact-the 'Pomp and Circumstance' theme was originally taken from a war song. Thank you, Cracked :)

@Shinigami_Aros 11 лет назад

I think its more that we've gotten used to the emotions we feel from certain visual stimulations with certain music in the background that that music makes us feel the same way by itself.

@strangeyoungman 11 лет назад

As an aside, as soon as I heard "Be a Man" from Mulan, I remembered I need to work out today, thanks for the reminder!

@Eoshatt 10 лет назад

I find every song I ever woke up to very very soothing, like Queen's All Dead or Metronomy's Some Written. I guess that would be episodic memory right?

@OrbitalRecordshq 11 лет назад

the opinion on music i've seen happens a lot with metal music, some find it depressing and angry, others hear it as liberating and powerful

@1995missusagi 11 лет назад

i think it lies purely on how we grew up, different social situations equals different ways of thinking, and i think this could potential effect our feels

@Frownlandia 11 лет назад

I've been thinking about this very intently for the past couple of weeks- nice timing. Personally I make the distinction that music is something that happens exclusively in the perception and interpretation of the listener, and that the actual sound is just air wobbling. Granted, sound impacts our bodies more directly than practically any other artistic medium is capable of, and at least the octave seems to be a universal interval, but everything else is relative.

@shinigamizax 11 лет назад

I was talking to a friend about this, how music can induce hairs to stand on end and give you that wonderful shiver . when comparing songs to this effect we found that we would get goose bumps at almost completely different times and or track but we did find that this could be done multiple times with the same piece of music, you could make a song base purely on these hair raising moments which technically sounds awful. But you can't help like because your programmed to enjoy those moments.

@Natala00 11 лет назад

The Streets - dry your eyes - Is a sad song that makes grown men cry. Women less so, but when talking about songs designed to make you weep, this reaches inside your chest and rips your heart strings out forcefully with pliers, and it's fascinating as it's aimed at guys.

@AlexHallajian 11 лет назад

Music=sound=energy.The energy flows through the air,hits the receptors in the ear & vibrates throughout the body,which fire more electrical signals to the brain.The chain reaction begins:dopamine,adrenaline,&oxytocin.-We are not 'in' this universe but 'of' it & as a result we are fine tuned to the rhythms and tones in nature.The story&history of the universe is our story&history also.When experiencing music we play our story in our mind's eye of who we were, are,and want to be.The emotions flow.

@ACDC392333 11 лет назад

I like that you have a Sunset Rubdown album on your wall.

@soffvassy 11 лет назад

i am Bulgarian and i find this emotionally satisfying

@TheYopogo 11 лет назад

I know music can definitely convey emotions far more complex than the most simple. I've felt extremely complex emotions from a single chord change, in the right musical context of course; feelings which are extremely difficult to describe in words. I can put it no plainer than this 'feeling like you've forgotten something important but you shouldn't worry about it, it might be for the best'... yeah... I like music.

@Nunreal69 11 лет назад

It can all be explained with the harmonic series: Major triads fit the harmonic series = consonant = happy. Minor ones clash, the minor 3rd being a more distant harmonic than the major 3rd = dissonant = sad. Also the other comments on Pentatonic scales and pitch sequences in speech are all very true- but those relations also stem from the harmonic series- it is a matter of physics that all sound resonates on the same basic principles and harmonic sequences.

@infinitepest 11 лет назад

The National come to mind. Their songs contain MANY major chords--almost exclusively so--yet their detractors are quick to call them 'dreary,' 'depressing,' 'grey.' I've never quite understood that; the band makes me smile more than any other.

@evanwilkins2498 10 лет назад

Continuing on that this not only means that music can't be sad or happy like some people believe but neither can I nor can you.

@soludsnak 11 лет назад

"Enjoyment comes from a balance of Recognition and Surprise - we enjoy things that we can relate to and have seen before, but we also like to be surprised. Total recognition is cliché; total surprise is alienating." - TVTropes.org

@technoteamvia 11 лет назад

In a philosophical way music gives an emotion boost for the appropriate time to be emotional. Listening to life and death from lost is sad because we need to feel sympathetic to understand the emotions going along with the tragedy of the show.

@soon7248 10 лет назад

I'm sad when I hear some songs but it's not because it's sad songs. sometimes happy song makes me sad too. as most people said, I think your feeling reflects your emotion at the time you are listening to songs. and at some points I agree with him about that cultural situation affects the song's feeling. depends on your culture, you will translate songs in different ways.

@luminusprotect 11 лет назад

This explains a lot when I first heard the song JBF it was quite catchy for a foreign music but when I knew the lyrics it was just sad

@PleaseNoKnees 11 лет назад

I think that the way in which our emotions are connected to music is detached by the very way that we rely on connections with past experience for things to be given meaning. From an early age we are taught to connect certain moods of music with certain events which are pre-determined and recognised as 'sad' or 'happy'. So when we hear a 'sad' song we connect the sad event which it is embedded within with similar sad events in our own experience, rather that the song directly.