Show and Patriotic and Sad Music Affect i Emotions y does music at one tim WHY V V as in the case of patriotic patrio drinking and national airs arouse arots and electrify hum human au emotion to the tiie highest pitch of ecstasy while at an another another an- an nother n- n other time as in funeral marches and dirges it depresses man to the low lowest t depths asks Dr Thomas J. J Mays Maya of in n an article in the New NewYork NewYork NewYork York Medical Journal Docs Does not this Ibis property reside in the very fibre and I up make-up of music This diversity is generally attributed to the fact that the former are usually written in major keys and the latter are most often expressed in minor keys This Thil Waves ti ii the er error nr or w would uia need c a ope to measure Notice beautifully they art are cutel tow how Perfectly thc blend is true in a certain sense although the statement gives but ut a semblance of the actual condition The Tho teal real truth is that owing to an inherent nt difference in the mechanism of the two keys physiological effects are produced by them which differ both in degree and In kind When for example the sounds bounds of the the major chords C E and G G. G arc are arcI I compared with those of the minor chord C flat E and G we find tuat the small and almost indistinguishable d difference in the number of vibrations between E and flat E coupled with the accompanying modifications ns of the two scales furnishes the solution to the query why cheer exhilaration hope and happiness are promoted by major music and and why melancholy and depression are aie induced by mi minor or music Dr Mays points out however that thata a minor chord is not an actual discord dis ois I Icord cord but merely what Prof Helmholtz Helm- Helm hoi holtz tz called a whid gives gies a slight jar to the auditor Below Diagram representing seating the waves of 0 the minor chord l O a tat flat G. G The note middle O C has a vibration of 01 waves per second flat B has waves leaves per vel second and md G has i wave waves per second This shows the waves for one sixty sixty- fourth of a second which Above Diagram rep rep- ep the t waves U S of 0 the tile major majol chord C CB CI CU I U B G. G The note mid mid- middle middle dle die G C has lias a vibration of 0 2581 2386 waves ye e ate are AO so nearly 4 4 I S 4 S all and G C that the cne n E has error would need a microscope to detect waves per second G 0 Notice that the for or C 0 Cout out Jour has lias waves wave per ver waves and that for G 0 six waves are second This shows show symmetrical l but ut that for flat n-flat fou iou t the le waves for one waves and four-fifths four of 0 a wave does sixty fourth of 0 a second sec sea not blend with toil the tile others ond which arc so o I I 11 nl 1 Ii 5 nerves and makes males it long for the pur PUN efflux of the tone into into harmony The human emotions are highly impressible impressible im tin- and the normal emotional movements respond in perfect harmany harmony har hll mony many to the force of major music while they are slightly disturbed by bythe bythe bythe the cross current or of minor music It must be remembered that up to tho the time of Bach Dach minor chords were r regarded re ri- as discords Major music in moderate doses acts on the emotions as stimulant doses of strychnine or quinine act at on the physical ply phy 1 nerves neres while minor music a atson WI d.-WI us on n them similarly to doses of bromides or sedatives Most lullabies are written in iu major keys and act as a because in ninny many cases sleeplessness is the tha effect of a temporarily weakened or exhausted condition of the body th the tha nerves needing sti stimulation and not depression And most great songs in major keys nave ve minor passages the sole object of which is to arouse and excite haman hitman hit hl man passion this is especially eff effective c- c tive in The Marseillaise in which the eighth and ninth lines are re repressed r repressed re- re pressed to a minor key and the immediately immediately imme immo- successive major lines are thrown into such a bold and brilliant relief that the intensity and the power of the emotional sequences are driven beyond the power of description Dr Mays describes the effects of the different kinds of music upon persons persons per per- sons suffering from various ailments ailment and expresses the belief that as an agent in the treatment of pulmonary consumption music probably has a stronger claim on the scientific attention atten atten- lion ion of the medical profession proCession th than n many of the remedies that are in use usa at the present day In selecting the form of music which is is most available in the treatment of consumption tion 11 t seems probable that by far tan larger number of such cases eases are arc bene bene- by music written in major keys I for it Is a patent fact tact that no matter how cheerful and elated patients o of this kind may seem to be in thit lonely moments there is nearly always present an undercurrent feeling of 01 tribulation and of oppression I I Often Orten the most important feature ot of the treatment of a consumptive is to I II protect him from annoyance to malts malt I him forget his malady and to cheer him up In this major music has Ii a significant role |