SAD SONGS MAKE US FEEL HAPPY
Music is a form of art. Listening to music makes us
feel relaxed and refreshed….. Most of the times it depends on the selection of
the song, whether they make us feel pathetic or energetic……In reality it’s not
always so.
We have got a misconception about the fact that the
sad songs would make us feel gloomy and miserable.
You will be amazed to know that it is a myth. And
How??? Let me explain….
A case study found that minor key music sounded
sadder than major key music to people, but they have more affinity towards it….
In an another study of 44 people , participants listened
to one of three lesser-known classical pieces--to avoid emotional influence
from memories connected to hearing the piece before--in both a major and minor
key. Researchers asked them to pinpoint the feelings they experienced while
listening to the music, as well as predict what kind of emotions they perceived
other people would experience while listening to the song. Participants did not consider the sad music as tragic as it was thought to
be , the researchers write:
“The listeners felt
less gloomy, meditative, and miserable as well as more fascinated, merry,
animated, and inclined to dance when they listened to sad music compared with
their actual perceptions of the same music”. The reason behind feeling so could
be a phenomenon called “sweet anticipation”. Even if the listeners experience
sad feelings but the sweet anticipation allows them to feel happy.
From this it can be
concluded that the feeling of being sad is not always the result of the
situation but listening to someone singing his /her sadness is a sensational
experience because this emotion is not effecting our well-being…..
BY_Sweta Sarangi
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ReplyDeleteVery informative .
Always a delight to read such posts .Look forward to more of such posts in future :)
(just wondering out of inquisitiveness, whether the differences of emotions for the same song played on different keys is because of different set of harmonics the keys produce? :/ )
Songs are composed with the help of both major and minor keys. Generally songs played using minor keys seem to be gloomy and sad but due to the phenomenon called "sweet anticipation", it seems pleasant or you can call it harmonic anticipation.
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