This document discusses how music can help people in various ways based on research findings. It addresses how music can help people feel joy, reduce stress, feel excited, move, remember better, listen better, speak better, connect, become more helpful, think creatively, and show their personality. The document provides research studies and articles to support each of the claims about the positive impacts music can have on people's moods, behaviors, cognitive abilities, and social interactions.

1. The purpose
of music

2. Question # 1
How can music
help people feel joy?

3. Albert Einstein, who was an accomplished violinist, said
that nothing gave him as much pleasure as music.
https://theconversation.com/good-vibrations-the-role-of-music-in-einsteins-thinking-54725

4. People get a little more energy when
listening to happy music.
http://ezinearticles.com/?Music-And-Its-Influence-On-Behavior&id=733185

5. Listening to happy music can make us
perceive others as being happy.
https://medium.com/the-mission/how-music-affects-your-brain-plus-11-artists-to-listen-to-at-work-4f0a5081d9e9#.p93hlz83f

6. High energy
Low energy
Alert
Excited
Happy
Nervous
Stressed
Sad
Depressed
Tired Calm
Relaxed
Satisfied
Angry

7. Question # 2
How can music
help people reduce stress?

8. Music can
 relieve pain,
 calm our nerves, and
 promote blood circulation.
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(15)60169-6/fulltext
http://www.helium.com/items/820665-musics-influence-on-behavior

9. Research with a group taking music lessons and a group studying
natural sciences found that the young musicians were less
likely to respond to provocation with aggression as
they grew older.
https://psmag.com/heres-evidence-that-music-training-dampens-young-kids-aggressive-behavior-b4f853502cc4#.moesikt2c

10. A review of 23 studies covering almost 1,500 patients found that listening
to music reduced heart rate, blood pressure and anxiety
in heart disease patients.
http://www.spring.org.uk/2013/09/10-magical-effects-music-has-on-the-mind.php

11. Research shows that when a child trained on an instrument, it
accelerated cortical organization in attention skill, anxiety
management and emotional control.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2015/01/07/music-lessons-spur-emotional-and-behavioral-growth-in-children-new-study-says/

12. Question # 3
How can music
help people feel excited?

13. Research shows that when a task is clearly defined and repetitive
in nature, music is useful.
Example
An assembly line worker’s mood may increase when he/she listens
to his/her favourite music – and thereby increase his/her
productivity doing the repetitive task.
https://www.fastcompany.com/3032868/how-music-affects-your-productivity

14. High energy
Low energy
Alert
Excited
Happy
Nervous
Stressed
Sad
Depressed
Tired Calm
Relaxed
Satisfied
Angry

15. Question # 4
How can music help people
people move?

16. The neurologist Oliver Sacks described how music can
animate people with Parkinson’s disease,
who cannot otherwise move.
https://www.oliversacks.com/oliver-sacks-books/musicophilia-oliver-sacks/

17. Listening to songs with high tempos
motivates us to run faster.
http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/walking-helps-us-think

18. Question # 5
How can music help people
remember better?

19. http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/story/2012/12/28/music-as-therapy.html
Music therapy helps Alzheimer patients remember.

20. The neurologist Oliver Sacks described how music can
calm and organize people, whose memories are
ravaged by Alzheimer’s or amnesia.
https://www.oliversacks.com/oliver-sacks-books/musicophilia-oliver-sacks/

21. A study found that adults learned a new language
more effectively when they sang the words
instead of spoke them.
http://www.creativitypost.com/education/music_helps_memory
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23860945

22. https://youtu.be/T8wzQJxrPgw
6 months of piano training significantly improved the
cognitive performance in adults aged 60 – 85 years.

23. A study shows that in the parietal lobes - which are associated with the
senses, memory and attention - the neural response of musicians are
faster than that of non-musicians.
The study adds to a growing body of evidence showing that musical
training has a wonderful positive effect on cognitive abilities.
http://www.spring.org.uk/2014/11/musics-amazing-effect-on-long-term-memory-and-mental-abilities-in-general.php

24. Question # 6
How can music help people
listen better?

25. When children learn to play music, their brains begin to hear
and process sounds that they couldn't otherwise hear.
http://www.news-medical.net/news/20160616/Music-instruction-improves-cognitive-socio-emotional-development-in-young-children.aspx
http://time.com/3634995/study-kids-engaged-music-class-for-benefits-northwestern/

26. Learning to play an instrument helps people to better
perceive speech and understand emotions
in the voice.
http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/07/unpacking-the-science-how-playing-music-changes-the-learning-brain/

27. Sylvain Moreno has demonstrated links between children’s
experiences in music and their auditory skills.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/769046140 location 4900.

28. Question # 7
How can music help people
speak better?

29. The neurologist Oliver Sacks described how music can give
words to stroke patients who cannot otherwise speak.
https://www.oliversacks.com/oliver-sacks-books/musicophilia-oliver-sacks/

30. Musicians have shown enhanced language skills
compared to non-musicians.
http://www.spring.org.uk/2014/06/musical-training-increases-executive-brain-function-in-children-and-adults.php

31. A study of 8 to 11-year-olds found that those who had extra-curricular
music classes developed higher verbal IQ and visual abilities
than those with no musical training.
http://www.spring.org.uk/2013/09/10-magical-effects-music-has-on-the-mind.php
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0003566

32. In Nigeria, there are 250 languages.
This means that advertising has to move beyond words to
emotion, music, images, and other nonverbal messages. In
meeting this challenge, remember that youth everywhere speak
one tongue: the language of music.
Mahajan, Vijay: Africa Rising, p. 131.

33. Through the years, music has also served cultures as a medium
to tell stories which should be passed down through their
generations.
https://www.racquelroberts.com/what-is-the-purpose-of-music/

34. Question # 8
How can music help people
to connect?

35. During the lockdowns due to the COVID-19 pandemic, nothing
helped connect people and break the sense of isolation as
much as music – sung or played from balconies or through
online videos.
https://theconversation.com/lockdown-singing-the-science-of-why-music-helps-us-connect-in-isolation-137312

36. Question # 9
How can music help people
become more helpful?

37. When people sing together or listen to happy music together, they
become more cooperative and less self-interested.
https://hbr.org/2016/08/upbeat-music-can-make-employees-more-cooperative
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/08/160823125215.htm

38. Singing together appears to inspire spontaneous cooperative
and helpful behavior among 4-year-olds.
http://www.psmag.com/blogs/news-blog/the-sounds-that-bind-new-evidence-of-why-we-love-music-63907

39. Intense music experiences cause long-term changes
to occur in values people have.
http://m.pom.sagepub.com/content/early/2013/07/10/0305735613482024

40. Question # 10
How can music help people
think creatively?

41. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/13/opinion/sunday/is-music-the-key-to-success.html
Music reinforces your confidence in the ability to create.

42. Musicians use more parts of their brain
more frequently than the average people.
http://www.physorg.com/news142185056.html

43. Question # 11
How can music help people
show their personality?

44. In a study participants were asked to judge each other’s
personality based solely on their list of 10 favorite songs.
Participants correctly identified the personality traits of
their study partners.
https://www.bbvaopenmind.com/en/humanities/arts/what-is-the-purpose-of-music/
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9280.2006.01691.x