Music and Emotion

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by a particular event peak at the same moment." When a group is singing or listening to music, different individuals may have different emotional responses. But "what matters is the general state of arousal and its simultaneity. Because of its capacity to intensify crowd feeling, music has a power akin to that of the orator."" (Wren 65-66).

Music has the strong ability to affect one's emotions. For example, according to The Economist Newspaper, "Music with a rapid tempo, and written in a major key, correlated [with] the induction of happiness. A slow tempo and a minor key induced sadness, and a rapid tempo combined with dissonance induced fear." So, this basically is saying that music with a constant tempo or with a constant pleasant beat makes one's emotion happy; slower music or music that sounds depressing or sad makes one sad, and the fast paced scream-o or rock out type of music is scary and unpleasant which causes fear.
As we all know the brain is what causes our ...

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