Science+Experiment

=Scientific Method Template = // . // Music Does Music effect a person's emotion?
 * Topic:**
 * Question:**

There different types of music. Rock, pop, rap, R&B,Jazz, Classical,etc. Sometimes when you hear a song from the past, It may take you back to a past event, such as a dance when you were younger. Or maybe you heard the song that was playing when you got your first kiss. It will take you back to your past.Your brain remembers the song and that specific moment and takes you back to that specific date. Ray Mueller, of the Shumei Arts Council of America’s Advisory Board suggest an experiment " Go for as long as you can without listening to music – no radio in the car, no singing in the shower, no CD to relax to at home. When you finally succumb, make note of what kind of music you want to hear and what emotional state you want to achieve by listening to it”. This is called anchoring.Music has been around since before A.D. 500. Music Therapy is an interpersonal process in which the therapist uses music and all of its facets—physical, emotional, mental, social, aesthetic, and spiritual—to help clients to improve or maintain their health. Music has long been used to help people deal with their emotions. In the 17th century, the scholar Robert Burton's //The Anatomy of Melancholy// argued that music and dance were critical in treating mental illness, especially melancholia. He noted that music has an "excellent power ...to expel many other diseases" and he called it "a sovereign remedy against despair and melancholy". He pointed out that in Antiquity, Canus, a Rhodian fiddler, used music to "make a melancholy man merry, ...a lover more enamoured, a religious man more devout." In November 2006, Dr. Michael J. Crawford and his colleagues also found that music therapy helped schizophrenic patients. In the Ottoman Empire, mental illnesses were treated with music.
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If I interview 10 people and have them listen to 5 different types of music, then 1/2 of the people's emotion's will be unaffected.
 * Hypothesis:**

1) I choose 5 random styles of music. 2) I gather 10 test subjects that are willing to participate. 3) One by one I play the song. After each song I ask the person how they feel. Their options are happy, sad, depressed, angry, excited, calm, or none. 4) After listening to all the songs and recording their data I will then pass on to a new subject, redoing step 3.
 * Procedure:**

**Materials:**
Music 10 test subjects Headphones A graph to record your data on

Do the experiment.
 * Experiment:**

My results were that only 28% of the subjects interviewed had no change in emotion.
 * Data/Results:**

My conclusion is that I was wrong. Only 28% of the people I interviewed had the same emotion they had before listening to the music. What I would do different is I would change the different music genre's I had the subject's listen to. What I would keep the same is the people who I interviewed.
 * Conclusion:**