Music can produce changes in our mood. Different elements influence this: time, rhythm, harmony, tonality, height, intensity and the instruments used:
Time: is the speed at which music is played. Slow works provoke dignity, calm, sentimentality, serenity, tenderness, sadness, and sometimes deadly boredom. The fast ones, on the other hand, generate happy, exciting, vigorous and, in some cases, hysterical impressions.
Rhythm: slow rhythms induce peace and serenity, sleep, wanting to shoot the functional music speaker in the dentist's office. While the rapids produce, it is believed, the need to externalize feelings and the ideal motor activation to start cleaning the house.
Harmony: chords that have notes with sounds that harmonize with each other are associated with balance, rest and joy; just think of your favorite FM or the music on your iPod. Dissonant chords, of notes with sounds far apart, provoke restlessness, agitation, worry and the desire to strangle the listener.
Tonality: it is the key or note around which a composition is organized. It can be older, with happy, lively and funny effects, which provoke the extraversion of people; or less, with sounds that lead to intimacy, melancholy, sentimentality and favor introversion. Example of the first, your grandmother dancing lambada; example of the second, intense / I make out on the couch while a ballad plays on the stereo.
Height: depends on the frequency at which the element that causes the sound vibrates. These can be high notes (alpha frequency) or bass (low frequency). The former provoke an alert attitude and, if they are very intense and prolonged, they can damage the hearing (a whistle, the voice of certain pop singers). The latter tend to produce gloomy effects, a pessimistic outlook or extreme tranquility (the voice of a sad rapper or a stoner bluesman).
My lovely daughterIntensity: differentiates weak sounds from strong ones according to the force with which the instrument is played and the distance the receiver is from the sound emission. Under its effect, a calming note or chord can become irritating if the volume is too high. The sweetest singer, at the loudest volume on your iPod, can turn killer.
Instrumentation: the strings violins, violas, cellos, harps, guitars (not the electric ones in a metal band, due to their expressive and penetrating sound, generate sentimentality more easily than the winds (it is difficult to compose a romantic ballad for tuba); these are They stand out for their cheerful and lively character, giving the compositions a brilliant, solemn and majestic imprint. Percussion instruments, on the other hand, have a rhythmic power with a liberating effect that encourages action and movement (just think of your neighbor murguero, your drummer friend or the folklorist that plays the bass drum upstairs).
