By Dinesh C Sharma, Mail Today, May 12, 2015
Classical music is known to influence our emotions a great deal. Now scientists at the National Brain Research Centre (NBRC), Manesar are trying to figure out how different ragas and their underlying structure elicit different moods.
In a preliminary study, they have found that people indeed experience different emotions while listening to Hindustani classical ragas, and emotion ratings shift as underlying tempo changes from alaap to gat. Study participants were made to listen to short pieces of instrumental music composed by sarod player Mukesh Sharma.
People were asked to rate their experienced emotion across alaap and gat of twelve ragas. “We found that ragas indeed evoke a gamut of responses ranging from ‘happy’ and ‘calm’ to ‘tensed’ and ‘sad’,” pointed out Nandini Chatterjee Singh, who led the study along with Avantika Mathur.
“This study provides new evidence that ragas evoke distinct emotional responses across distinct presentation modes. This opens up the possibility of using different ragas as robust mood-inducing stimuli,” Singh said.
The study results have been published in journal Frontiers in Psychology.
In the next stage, researchers plan to study actual changes occurring in brain while one listens to classical music, using functional magnetic resonance imaging. In case you want to volunteer, write to avantika@nbrc.ac.in
Classical music is known to influence our emotions a great deal. Now scientists at the National Brain Research Centre (NBRC), Manesar are trying to figure out how different ragas and their underlying structure elicit different moods.
In a preliminary study, they have found that people indeed experience different emotions while listening to Hindustani classical ragas, and emotion ratings shift as underlying tempo changes from alaap to gat. Study participants were made to listen to short pieces of instrumental music composed by sarod player Mukesh Sharma.
People were asked to rate their experienced emotion across alaap and gat of twelve ragas. “We found that ragas indeed evoke a gamut of responses ranging from ‘happy’ and ‘calm’ to ‘tensed’ and ‘sad’,” pointed out Nandini Chatterjee Singh, who led the study along with Avantika Mathur.
“This study provides new evidence that ragas evoke distinct emotional responses across distinct presentation modes. This opens up the possibility of using different ragas as robust mood-inducing stimuli,” Singh said.
The study results have been published in journal Frontiers in Psychology.
In the next stage, researchers plan to study actual changes occurring in brain while one listens to classical music, using functional magnetic resonance imaging. In case you want to volunteer, write to avantika@nbrc.ac.in
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