MUSIC AND PERSONALITY CHARACTERISTICS

Music and Personality Characteristics

Introduction

Music is called as a language that expresses number of emotions and gestures. Musicians communicate with others through songs and it is assumed that this communication medium is more effective than others. Every melody tells a different story with a different mood which can be easily understood by person of that caliber. In this paper we will discuss that music selection is directly proportionate to the personality of a person. Music can also help in changing the pre-existing mood of a person.

Discussion

Since decades music has been considered as a part of our lives and numbers of theorists say that music does influence us. If we see generally we all listen to music but it is not at all necessary that we all like the same melody or a song. This difference in song choice can be due to mood tantrum or a music taste.

Researchers say that selection of a song tells the current mood of a person in particular and in general the personality of a person. Music does influence in shaping the personality of a person.

Although there are many ways to express psycho-socio-cultural identification, the music is the one that involves all of us. Along with language, this art (it requires skill) and cultural (it is part of our way of life) is one of the only mechanisms that, apart from appearing only in humans, it develops phenotype in our genes, and it is activated by the interaction and is particularly noticeable. The music has its greatest influence during adolescence, when a person seeks to define the personality to be in his adult stage (Rentfrow, 2009). 

Because of this, human beings are, by nature, musical beings and so, as suggested by Dr. Stefan Koelsch, a neuroscientist at the Max-Planck Institute of Germany, who in a study with his team, concluded that the human brain has developed a strong pitch for receiving and producing music, not because of music education regardless of the individual or if he is very interested in music. "We see in our experiments that people, that their selves are considered very musical and have never played an instrument, are able to process musical information we present to them and that too very precisely and with great accuracy." 

All this is what our history reveals for example; Over 300 thousand years ago, people showed signs of musical expression, both through vowel sounds as instruments of wood, bone or stone. The music production process became increasingly complex and the sense of music became so important that it became a multipurpose tool for all kinds of activities, rituals and artistic expression and emotional expressions (Bandura, 2006).

The music is a great benchmark for us to identify humans, widely particularly in societies and in person. Each person geographically, historically, socially and psychologically has its musical background which is strongly linked to its character and / or personality. 

Every culture around the world has its own music (indeed, if we talk about the strong relationship between language and music, we will realize that same ...