Music is what feelings sound like. Music is not a luxury, but a necessity. HealthDay News recently announced a study exploring whether harmonic sounds are therapeutic for people who suffer from neurological disorders. That makes us wondering wether our brains are tuned to healing frequencies? It is proven that the type of music we listen to has an important affect on our performance and bodily response. Classical music from the baroque period causes the heart beat and pulse rate to relax to the beat of the music. As the body becomes relaxed and alert, the mind is able to concentrate more easily.

Music is our laughter that makes us cry. It is our happiness and we always feel in side. A research conducted using monkeys, suggests that human perception of music may have been developed through the capacity of animals to communicate with one another using vocalizations. Researchers noted that the sounds of human speech have much in common with the sounds made by animals. For example, animal vocalizations and human speech contain the same kinds of tones, which are known as “complex tones.” Georgetown University Medical Center conducted the study investigating brain activity in the auditory cortex of monkeys. In a recent study on background music, researchers found that neurons (a certain type of brain cell) were tuned to specific frequencies and harmonic sounds. Does music could help pain? Well, while music can not eradicate pain it can help alleviate it by creating a secondary stimulus that diverts attention away from the discomfort.

Popular music is, by definition, music that appeals to many people. You don’t have to know anything about music to like a pop tune – it’s “catchy”. Art music is a catch-all term for any music that is enjoyed by a smaller crowd. While the benefits of using background music should be evident, employers ought to consider the type of music played in a workplace to ensure that the mood and style best fits the workforce and their desired behaviour. It is a win-win process for the employer as well as for the employee.

Museums usually incorporate some form of background music into their cultural displays, making them that much more powerful. It’s impossible not to feel something as you gaze at Genghis Khan’s armor in a museum display and hear the same sort of music that he would have heard, or view a Hindu funeral pyre while listening to Indian music.