The Interplay of Preference, Familiarity and Psychophysical Properties in Defining Relaxation Music
| العنوان: | The Interplay of Preference, Familiarity and Psychophysical Properties in Defining Relaxation Music |
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| المؤلفون: | Richard B. Fratianne, Dennis M. Super, Charles J. Yowler, Xueli Tan |
| المصدر: | Journal of Music Therapy. 49:150-179 |
| بيانات النشر: | Oxford University Press (OUP), 2012. |
| سنة النشر: | 2012 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Adult, Male, Complementary and Manual Therapy, Melody, Relaxation, Music therapy, Relaxation Therapy, behavioral disciplines and activities, Mode (music), Humans, Music Therapy, Relaxation (psychology), Patient Preference, Recognition, Psychology, General Medicine, Degree (music), humanities, Music and emotion, Auditory Perception, Female, Psychology, human activities, Timbre, Social psychology, Music, Psychoacoustics, Cognitive psychology |
| الوصف: | BACKGROUND The stress response has been well documented in past music therapy literature. However, hypometabolism, or the relaxation response, has received much less attention. Music therapists have long utilized various music-assisted relaxation techniques with both live and recorded music to elicit such a response. The ongoing proliferations of relaxation music through commercial media and the dire lack of evidence to support such claims warrant attention from healthcare professionals and music therapists. OBJECTIVE The purpose of these 3 studies was to investigate the correlational relationships between 12 psychophysical properties of music, preference, familiarity, and degree of perceived relaxation in music. METHODS Fourteen music therapists recommended and analyzed 30 selections of relaxation music. A group of 80 healthy adults then rated their familiarity, preference, and degree of perceived relaxation in the music. RESULTS The analysis provided a detailed description of the intrinsic properties in music that were perceived to be relaxing by listeners. These properties included tempo, mode, harmonic, rhythmic, instrumental, and melodic complexities, timbre, vocalization/lyrics, pitch range, dynamic variations, and contour. In addition, music preference was highly correlated with listeners' perception of relaxation in music for both music therapists and healthy adults. The correlation between familiarity and degree of relaxation reached significance in the healthy adult group. CONCLUSIONS Results from this study provided an in-depth operational definition of the intrinsic parameters in relaxation music and also highlighted the importance of preference and familiarity in eliciting the relaxation response. |
| تدمد: | 2053-7395 0022-2917 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::993104bec3733e401da7adb98d0d4348 https://doi.org/10.1093/jmt/49.2.150 |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi.dedup.....993104bec3733e401da7adb98d0d4348 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 20537395 00222917 |
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