RESEARCH

“MUSIC HAS AN UNCONSCIOUS INFLUENCE ON YOUR MOOD AND REACTION TO YOUR SURROUNDING AREA 

Scientific studies have proven our common knowledge: even though you might not notice background music consciously, it has an unconscious influence on your mood and your reaction to the surrounding area. See below to find out the results of an independent survey on in store audio and video marketing and the affect it has on your business.

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  • Living apart together: a relationship between music psychology and music therapy 

This article was originally printed in Nordic Journal of Music Therapy, 10(2), pp. 144-158. 

ABSTRACT

`Ladies and Gentlemen, my respected and beloved music friends! Musica animae levamen, music is medicine for our souls.’ These are the opening lines of the book … written by the German musicologist Christopher Rueger (1991). In this work, Rueger describes a variety of musical recipes to cure an equally impressive variety of disorders. If we take a closer look into his laboratory, we can read that listening to Beethoven’s Symphony No.2 helps to cope with feelings of depression and doubt and the popular Goldberg Variations of Bach will decrease sleeping disorders.

  • Emotions and music: A reply to the cognitivists.

This article was originally printed in Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Vol. 47, No. 1pp. 69-76.

ABSTRACT

`There is no doubt that [people] can be profoundly moved by perceiving, performing, or imagining music, and consequently music must touch on something in their emotional life that brings them into this state of excitation. The effects of different sorts of music are different from one another, and reminiscent of life emotions…for music evokes and express’