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THE STUDY OF HEART RATE AND MUSIC Taylor T. 2011-2012

ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to determine if intense/aggressive music increases your heart rate more than other types of music. What was learned was the human heart is an organ, or a body part, that pumps blood, ears are the body parts or organs of a human that allows them to hear, and sound is vibrations that transport through the air. In the results of the experiments, heavy and aggressive music had the greatest increase on a person’s heart rate, higher volume had a higher heart rate average, eyes closed while listening to music had a smaller heart rate than with eyes open, pop had the greatest increase in heart rate for the change from just music to music video versus classical and country, and that larger screened videos increase a person’s heart rate more. This data can help people who have health problems and need to keep their heart rate either high or low and the best way to help people relax themselves with music.

CONCLUSION In conclusion, It was found out that the louder/ more aggressive the genre of a song is, the higher your heart rate will be, listening to music at a low volume instead of a high volume will keep your heart rate lower, music with a video has increases your heart rate more than without the video and just the music, pop had the greatest amount of change from just music to music video versus jazz and country, if you listen to music with your eyes closed, your heart rate would stay lower than with your eyes open, and that watching a video at a larger screen video size, your heart rate will be slightly greater. This data is important to the world because if someone has to watch their heart rate to make sure it doesn’t go too high, they can use the data of the types of ways music and music video types can help them with that. The data can also help someone realize how to calm themselves down and decrease their heart rate by closing their eyes while listening to music, choosing specific genres, or just lowering the volume. The hypothesis was that more intense, aggressive, and loud genres of music had the greatest increase on a person’s heart rate. The prediction was correct since the music like Metal which is aggressive and intense had a great increase on heart rate and classical, a soft and gentle music genre had the least increase on a person’s heart rate from no music. Some future follow up experiments are; does music increase the male or female heart rate more and if dancing to music increases the person’s heart rate from just listening to music with no movement.

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