Chapter 8 Playing Music

Lynell Burmark, discusses the impact music has on the audience during a presentation in Chapter 8, Playing Music.  In the age of black and white movies, the audience needed music to engage their emotional reactions and involvement.  According to professor Norman Weinberger, music is needed now a days to supply the actual emotional states and feeling the audience needs to identify with the action and the characters involved. Music dictates our emotional state and tells us when to laugh or when to cry.  Music takes over our emotions.  Based on a research study conducted by Carol Krumhansl listeners easily identified musical compositions as happy, fearful or sad.  Music should be selected intentionally.  Musical experiences enrich the learning process.  Maximize educational benefits from playing music in a presentation by using the same music at the same tempo when trying to recall material when you learned it.  Incorporating images with music into your presentation will impact your audience.