Question

Listening to music helps us connect with our soul as we ___________.​

Answer 1

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Listening to music together increases levels of oxytocin, a neuropeptide which encourages bonding and trust between people. But it also highlights and reinforces cultural ties: research shows that when we find out someone likes a piece of music that we like, we tend to think better of them.

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Answer 2

Music and the Soul

Music, because of its deep connections with the brain, is intrinsically meaningful to humanity as a race. We thrive off it. It drives our actions and emotions, and its influence on our brains creates a sense of unity with music that few other art forms can provide.

In a field known as the “Psychology of Music,” psychologists have been studying music’s meaning in our culture and our emotions. The Psychology of Music is still a very vague topic, with much studying left to do on it, but it is emerging as one of the top subfields of psychology. (Tan)

We, as human beings, have something called a “musical memory,” and all of ours are pretty good. Some are better than others, but most of us have the ability to remember how a song goes and are able to sing along with our favorites. An example of an outstanding musical memory is Italian conductor Arturo Toscanini. There are rumors that he knew, by heart, every note of over 250 symphonies, 100 operas, and several volumes of instrumental compositions. (Williamson) Memory is not restricted to music, of course, as many people have good memories for certain subjects, and are unable to remember facts about topics that don’t interest them. Memory takes practice, and that goes for musical memory as well. Musicians like Toscanini practice for hours upon hours, developing their musical minds. Musical memory also stays in the brain for a very long time. There are many cases of dementia, Alzheimer’s, or head injury patients who, despite losing recollection of other things, can still remember music. (Williamson)

-Toscanini

Another interesting phenomenon in music is known popularly as the “earworm,” in which a person gets a song “stuck in his/her head.” There is no known cause for the earworm, no reason for the song to be stuck in one’s head. It just is. Earworms are interesting in the way that they are almost an itch that can be scratched by listening to the song in question, or by singing it out loud. The catchiness of a song is also something that can’t be measured scientifically. It is thought to replay in our heads under the right circumstances: the right song, at the right time. (Williamson) We also find that the more musically trained a person is, the more beautiful music sounds to him/her. People can, in fact, teach themselves how to listen to music. Researchers took 19 non-musicians and taught them several chords. After a few sessions of learning these chords, the participants found the chords to be more pleasurable to listen to than before, and they continued to hear unfamiliar chords as unpleasant. (Abrams) This supports the fact that the music of different cultures around the world doesn’t necessarily sound the same to everyone.

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