The music that we like stimulates in us feelings depending on our mood for the moment. It is surprising how certain rhythms and styles that are not associated with states of relaxation, come to relax and vice versa. It is not correct to affirm that certain types of music are for something concrete.
There are general patterns in the different musical genres, the acute timbres tend to excite more than the serious ones due to the amount of impulses that are received, in addition, the exciting music produces an increase in the state of anxiety.
Certainly the Greeks were the first to determine and apply the effect on human behavior. There is a study carried out by Roberto Valderrama Hernández, who used the execution of irregular rhythms, marked, fast, dynamic and with high decibels. They were made to listen to people of different ages and of both sexes, in fragments of 3 to 5 minutes, as the study was carried out, it was noticed that the subjects became restless, moved their hands and feet, with the need to move.
However, the type of exciting music is not the only musical genre that causes emotional changes in people. It is then determined that all musical genres provoke emotional reactions in people, some provoke that the person wants to dance others that the person wants to cry, that is happy, angry, that feels euphoric. For these reactions caused by music can be achieved with music: understanding, relaxation, craving, want to destroy something, including stress, but not that the musical genres are specific to achieve one or another state of mind.
Scientifically these people's psychic responses have a biological explanation, the cells (neurons) that receive the sound vibrations through the auditory nerve, are grouped more densely in the receiving area of the acute sounds, so the amount of nerve impulses that They arrive is greater.
That is why to stimulate, acute sounds are used and to relax, serious sounds.
But not only the type of noise is the one that stimulates, but the rhythm, harmony, melody or the scales used in a song affect a lot.
For example, a larger scale encourages more dynamics, joy, openness to the outside and less sadness, depth and a self reflective state but like all other things this is relative, depending on the meaning given to the interpretation, the speed, the tessitura * where it is played, the type of context, the internal situation of the interpreter or the memories related to the music all this changes the expected effect on the state of mind.
Therefore, a minor scale played merrily with a violin and at a certain speed can be very happy, in the same way that a larger scale played sadly and slowly can be very sad, hence we can evoke Beethoven's thought "Music is the mediator between spiritual world and the one of the senses "
Therefore an open and clean mind of world influences, it is easier to feel the true nature of the music we listen to. This is how we know the most subtle parts of our being.
I want to conclude with several quotes and thoughts from writers, musicians, famous philosophers and who have therefore marked and left a legacy in humanity:
"Music expresses what can not be said and what it is impossible to remain silent" Víctor Hugo
"When music reaches you, you do not feel pain" Bob Marley
"Music swells the temper" Jim Morrison
"Music is the shorthand of emotion" León Tolstoi
If we analyze each of these phrases, we can conclude affirming that music in any of its genres influences the emotional state of people but that this teaches us the relative influence of music on being, nor the classic, Baroque or Gregorian chant are necessarily balanced, nor are the most strident or cacophonous music an epidemic for society.
