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Sunday, May 3, 2015

About music and health again

About music and health again.
Certain aspects of music have the same take place on tribe even when they live in very different societies, a altered study reveals. Researchers asked 40 Mbenzele Pygmies in the Congolese rainforest to mind to short clips of music. They were asked to lend an ear to their own music and to peculiar Western music. Mbenzele Pygmies do not have access to radio, goggle-box or electricity how stars grow it. The same 19 selections of music were also played to 40 unskilled or professional musicians in Montreal.

Musicians were included in the Montreal society because Mbenzele Pygmies could be considered musicians as they all chant regularly for ceremonial purposes, the study authors explained. Both groups were asked to count how the music made them feel using emoticons, such as happy, dreary or excited faces. There were significant differences between the two groups as to whether a indicated piece of music made them bear good or bad.

However, both groups had similar responses to how exciting or calming they found the unique 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 comparable ways," Hauke Egermann, of the Technical University of Berlin, said in a dispatch release from McGill University in Montreal. Egermann conducted piece of the study as a postdoctoral lover at McGill.