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| Music is a healer |
Participants in the study listened to five random selections of Beethoven, Bach, Puccini, and other classical artists as well as a two-minute segment of silence. Monitors recorded physiological signals.
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| Music improves physical health |
The researchers found that selections with crescendos, especially those with a series of them (like the ones you hear in Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody), made blood vessels constrict and increased blood pressure, heart rate, and respiration. These measures decreased during decrescendos and silent periods.
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| Music can lift everyone's spirits |
The study's results indicate that music goes beyond a patient's head. "It is not only the emotion that creates the cardiovascular changes," he notes, "but this study suggests that also the opposite might be possible." He believes the boosts in mood - including those pleasurable "chills" -triggered by music might also be a side effect of a physiological reaction.
A paper published earlier this year found that a developing fetus can distinguish changes in sound patterns, which is probably why mothers play music while the baby is still in utero.
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| Pregnant mothers play music hoping their babies can hear it |
You can read more about this topic here:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/music-therapy-heart-cardiovascular/
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