Music itself, as an art and a social ideology, reflects human social life and human thoughts and feelings. Through the perfect combination of rhythm, melody, harmony and timbre, it infects the appreciator. People often say that music can cultivate sentiment and purify the soul, which is of course inseparable from the characteristics of music and people's psychological perception of music. People's perception, understanding and appreciation of music are accomplished through a series of psychological activities, and the social function of music is mainly exerted in a subtle way through the psychological activities of the appreciators.
Music is an art that is good at expressing and stimulating emotions, so the process of music appreciation is also a process of emotional experience. Music appreciation is imaginative and can make people surpass everything. People have all kinds of troubles and worries in the real world, and people will feel small and helpless, but music can make people detached from things, adjust the contradiction between subjective and objective, restore people's psychological balance, and make people integrate into the vast universe and nature with music. Music can also show fierce conflicts, show people's struggle with fate, and entrust and alleviate people's pain and sadness. At this level of appreciation, music can not only help people relieve their distress, but also break through the shackles of habitual thinking, make people's imagination grow wings and stimulate great creativity and potential.
Music can affect people's emotions, and it is also reflected in people's physiological reactions. Relaxed music can improve the function of the brain and the whole nerve. A brisk pace can cheer up the spirit and eliminate fatigue; Beautiful melody can calm the mood, concentrate, improve people's interest in life, and is conducive to the recovery of physical and mental health. Obviously, music has a great influence on spirit and mood. Research shows that good music can not only eliminate people's bad experiences, but also expand people's feelings, feelings and experiences and improve their thinking structure during listening to music. Therefore, most students can adjust their music according to these principles.
To adjust your mood with music, you must take part in music activities, which refer to singing, listening to music and playing musical instruments. No matter what kind of music activities you engage in, you will feel the powerful charm of music and be infected by it. Singing can cheer people up, and even shallow singing can sweep away the depression in people's hearts. Playing musical instruments requires a long period of training, which I am afraid most people can't do. And listening to songs can only be done by people with normal hearing. The more you listen, the higher your appreciation ability; The higher the appreciation ability, the more you can appreciate the beauty and exquisiteness of music, and the easier it is to be infected by music.
A mentally healthy and mature person will never refuse the benefits that music brings him. Whether we perceive it in the state of "only knowing, but inexpressible" or blend it with the emotional connotation of music, we will sublimate our spirit through constant taste. Songs that touch our hearts, such as Kelly King's saxophone Home, Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, Schubert's Serenade, Mendelssohn's Song of Spring, Gershwin's rhapsody in blue and so on, have far-reaching artistic conception and make people free from sadness and become cheerful, excited and confident, which is especially beneficial to those with psychological problems. Listen to music, whether modern or classical, as long as it is dissolved in the ocean of music. It can regulate the heart, regulate the breath, soothe the nerves, relax, associate and regulate the body and mind, and at the same time, it can dispel diseases, strengthen the body, calm the liver and suppress yang, strengthen the chest and improve intelligence.
The development of human civilization proves that due to the great role of music in human social life, a complete musical aesthetic psychological structure has become an important symbol of human spiritual civilization and an indispensable part of contemporary college students' life. Therefore, college students should listen to music more. Concerts will make your mind purer, your life happier, your body healthier and your potential and creativity richer.
There are three main kinds of music, one is light music, the other is entertainment music and the other is noise. According to experts' investigation, light music helps the brain to learn. When people are studying, light music helps the brain to remember. According to the research results of experts on children's intelligence, children's learning music in adolescence is helpful to improve their intelligence. The next kind, entertainment music, can change the atmosphere and relax as an interest pursuit. Can be divided into, emotional venting, encouragement, pop music: such as heavy metal music. Third, noise. All music belongs to noise in inappropriate environment, and sometimes the audio of music will affect brain waves. Can lead to insanity.
Music can affect people's mood through its tone. China has always emphasized "ceremony" and "music" in ancient times. Yue Ji said, "The rites and music made by my late king were not to my taste. We will teach people to solve their likes and dislikes, but oppose human justice. ..... Happiness does not lead to resentment. Music is clear, eyes and ears are smart, blood is peaceful, customs are changed, and the world is peaceful. ..... "Here we talked about the physical and psychological effects of music. Ancient Greece also attached great importance to music, thinking that E was steady, D was strong, C was kind, B was sad, A was high-key, G was impetuous and F was immoral. Aristotle emphasized the key of C, and thought that the key of C was the most suitable for training young people.
When investigating the influence of music on people's feelings, the professors of the Music Psychotherapy Research Group of new york Medical University in the United States pointed out: "Slow and sad music reduces the contact activities between people, and the dialogue is often full of resentment and hostility. On the contrary, music with clear rhythm, smooth and cheerful makes people have friendly conversations. "
Before we were born, each of us grew up in the mother's womb with the fetus and heart sounds. Healthy and harmonious fetal sounds and heart sounds can calm the mood and psychology of the fetus; On the contrary, emotional anxiety, nervousness, and fetal voice disorder will have a bad influence on the fetus. According to Japanese research, the proportion of children born to pregnant women living in the terror of war and air strikes, among which the proportion of immature children and children with brain disorders is much higher than that in peacetime. "prenatal education music" is not so much to let the fetus listen to music education in the mother's body, but rather to say that the mother who listens to music education promotes the good development of the fetus because of her emotional and spiritual stability.
Both Confucius and Beethoven greatly appreciated the role of music in cultivating people's minds. In their view, the cultivation of people's sentiment by music is entirely due to the aesthetic value of music itself. However, from the perspective of music therapy, the influence of music on people's psychology and emotions is not only influenced by the aesthetics of music itself, but also because music can imitate or reproduce various emotions to the greatest extent technically, especially targeted impromptu music can directly communicate with people's emotions.
Emotion is not only the coat of emotional world, but also the catalyst of cognitive world. Because people often have positive cognition when they are in a good mood, and on the contrary, they often have negative cognition. Since music can affect people's emotions through its own emotions, it can also have an immeasurable impact on cognition, so the influence of music on people's emotional world and cognitive world naturally contains unlimited potential.
The influence of music on people's mood
Music has an influence on people's mood. It affects people's mood through tone. Different music types can also lead to different emotions. A foreign psychologist once analyzed 208 members of three different symphony orchestras. The results show that the band members who mainly play classical music are in a stable and happy mood: more than 60% members who mainly play modern music are prone to acute noise, and more than 22% are depressed. Some people often suffer from insomnia, headache and earache. Some people have made a survey of some music lovers, and found that the relationship between people in a family enjoying classical music is harmonious: people who often enjoy romantic music are cheerful; Those who are keen on modern music often quarrel with each other.
It can be seen that music can really affect people, but isn't music the same for people? The answer is no, someone once selected 290 kinds of famous songs and tested 20,000 people successively, all of which made the listener's mood change. The change of mood is directly proportional to the appreciation ability of the subjects, but music can only cause abstract emotions, such as anger, fear and jealousy.
Music is pioneering and innovative, and has a strong edifying effect on people, which can make people's mood float and their thoughts firm. For example, Beethoven, a German musician, once said, "Whoever understands my music can overcome fate." /kloc-children who have been studying music for 0/~ 3 years have a broader aesthetic vision, cheerful personality, love to use their brains and strong imagination.
Since music has such a great influence on people, can music be used to benefit mankind?
Music therapy is a good example.
The term "music therapy" did not formally appear until forty years ago. In 1950s, the first diploma of "Music Therapist" appeared in America. Modern music therapy regards music as an activity therapy, that is, through specific music activities to obtain therapeutic effects. This regards music not only as an art, but also as a science. Music therapy aims at treating pathology. It focuses on the arrangement of people rather than a certain part. Through the adjustment of people as a whole and even the living environment, we can achieve systematic harmony, thus eliminating psychological and physical diseases.
A doctor in Britain prescribed a strange prescription for a patient with neuropathic stomachache, that is, let the patient listen to German Bach's music records three times a day, all after meals, and the patient really recovered. A doctor in Rome not only used anesthetics but also hypnotized patients with music, which played a very good calming role. In obstetrics and gynecology, music is also used to produce analgesic and oxytocin effects. When hypertensive patients are emotional, listening to some lyrical and calm music every day will lower their blood pressure.
Music is very attractive. Solemn melody endows people with rich imagination, melodious melody can make people have a pleasant rest, and soothing melodious melody can eliminate fatigue.
Of course, music has its downside.
Some people have tried to treat people with depression, irritability, headache and chest tightness; Patients who are in a trance, uneasy, dizzy, sentimental, insomnia and forgetfulness have achieved satisfactory results after listening to cheerful and bright music. Nervous and horrible music, grotesque tone, harsh harmony and crazy rhythm have a strong stimulating effect on people's nervous system, and even destroy the normal movement law of the heart and blood vessels, leading to emotional anxiety, restlessness, nausea and vomiting, headache and high blood pressure. In fact, there are many such strange tunes in modern western music. It is not music worthy of appreciation, but a kind of high decibel noise, which is harmful to human body. These should be avoided.
Generally speaking, if you make good use of music, you can have a positive influence on your mood.