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Music and Emotions
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on April 27, 2015 (go to class or lectures)
Choose from these words to fill the blanks below:
romantic, rational, advertisers, motor, 4000, patterns, disturbance, Mozart, analytical, basilar, stressed, air, buy, think, morning, melts, emotions, message, candy, timeless, 12, neurotransmitters, dopamine, tonotopic, high, sex, 30
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music's influence on us
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the poetry of the       
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can move your                 
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music can manipulate us
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                       know this
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to persuade us to        something
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e.g. a high end watch
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            , Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
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reinforces the               , that this watch is a classic
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it's                  like Mozart's music
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certain music works better at different times
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Bach and Handel
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usually get played in the               
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                 dinner
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Bach BWV 578
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bad choice
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makes your mind            rather than melt
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encourages                      thinking
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Puccini, "O mio babbino caro"
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good choice
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           your emotions
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definition of music
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the                  organization of sounds and silences passing through time
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any sound is a                        of the atmosphere
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sound waves are simply differing air pressures
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large sound waves generate low pitches
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small sound waves generate          pitches
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low note on piano
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string vibrates about      times per second
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literally      feet long as it goes through the atmosphere
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high note on piano
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string vibrates about          times per second
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results in sound waves coming in regular                 
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sound waves of different length enter ear and are converted to electrochemical impulses
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the                membrane is tonotopic [toh-noh-TAH-pic], each of the many cilia responds to one frequency
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sound is then processed in the brain, it too,                   , neurons responding only to certain frequencies
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if you are playing music, the sounds need to be coordinated to            control of playing the instrument
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another part of the brain is responsible for how we feel about the music
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music can excite us for sports or can calm us down when                 
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                                   are stimulated
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excite neighboring cells which release chemicals such as                  and glutamates which are responsible for our emotions
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music can have the same effect of other euphoria-inducing stimuli such as food,        and drugs
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music is like            the mind

Vocabulary:

tonotopy, n. [toh-NAH-toh-pee] the spatial arrangement of where sounds of different frequency are processed in the brain ⇒ "The basilar membrane is tonotopic [toh-noh-TAH-pic], each of the many cilia responds to one frequency."
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