About music and health again.
Certain aspects of music have the same create on masses even when they live in very different societies, a new study reveals. Researchers asked 40 Mbenzele Pygmies in the Congolese rainforest to attend to short clips of music. They were asked to prick up one's ears to their own music and to unfamiliar Western music. Mbenzele Pygmies do not have access to radio, video or electricity vimax rh. The same 19 selections of music were also played to 40 amateur or practised musicians in Montreal.
Musicians were included in the Montreal group because Mbenzele Pygmies could be considered musicians as they all pipe regularly for ceremonial purposes, the study authors explained. Both groups were asked to class how the music made them feel using emoticons, such as happy, sad or excited faces banane. There were significant differences between the two groups as to whether a definite piece of music made them feel good or bad.
However, both groups had almost identical responses to how exciting or calming they found the different types of music. "Our major uncovering 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 news broadcast release from McGill University in Montreal. Egermann conducted factor of the study as a postdoctoral fellow at McGill.