About Music And Health Again

About Music And Health Again.
Certain aspects of music have the same upshot on nation even when they live in very different societies, a new study reveals. Researchers asked 40 Mbenzele Pygmies in the Congolese rainforest to keep one's ears open to short clips of music. They were asked to lend an ear to their own music and to unfamiliar Western music. Mbenzele Pygmies do not have access to radio, boob tube or electricity. The same 19 selections of music were also played to 40 amateur or educated musicians in Montreal.

Musicians were included in the Montreal group because Mbenzele Pygmies could be considered musicians as they all squeal regularly for ceremonial purposes, the study authors explained. Both groups were asked to rank 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 determined piece of music made them feel good or bad.

However, both groups had nearly the same responses to how exciting or calming they found the different types of music. "Our major revelation 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 gossip release from McGill University in Montreal. Egermann conducted part company of the study as a postdoctoral fellow at McGill.