How and Why do Different Types of

Music Evoke Different Emotions?

Hamid Koroni
Independent Study Mentorship Spring 2017
Mrs. Click
My Mentor

▪ Mr. Thomas Macias

▪ Assistant Director at Creekside Intermediate

▪ Earned a Music Education degree at the University of Houston

▪ Has a lot of experience performing in ensembles like the University of Houston Wind
Ensemble, Trombone Choir, Spirit of Houston Marching Band, and Cougar Brass
Basketball Band

▪ Also Participated in Drum Corps in 2011 with The Bluecoats

ISM

▪ An advanced academic course for people who wish to mentor a professional

in any chosen career
▪ Develop and create a project and presentation at the end of the semester
▪ Document a minimum of 3 hours of mentorship each week
▪ Complete a journal entry and activity log each week
Project Topic

▪ My Project topic is about the relation of music, the brain, and the emotions
that accompany us as we listen to music
▪ I chose this because I was listening to a spectrum of different types of music
and then it had occurred to me, why d I feel different listening to this
compared to that?
Key Points
Anatomy of the Brain

▪ Talk about the anatomy of the brain

▪ Talk about how the brains hears
sounds
Structural Features of Music

▪ Talk about time signature

▪ Key signature
Styles of Music

▪ Jazz
▪ Classical
Major v Minor

▪ Talk about how Major sounds

happy and minor sounds sad etc.

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Different Cultures of Music

▪ Latin Music, other world clture

types of music
Current Event

▪ My current event was about brain

tests that were taken that could tell
if you were a musician or not.
▪ This relates to my presentation
because it shows how music
produces an effect on the brain
Research Slide

▪ How does the brain hears and anatomy of the brain

▪ Different types and styles of music
▪ How music creates different feelings
Product Slide

▪ My product is going to be a solo

and discussing the music and the
emotions that can accompany it
▪ I am going to achieve this by
practicing my solo and doing
research on my key points which
would educate me to be able to
make a discussion of my music.
Conclusion Slide

▪ I hope to learn more about music

by the end of the semester
▪ I hope that I could use this to
develop my brain and can be
applied towards neuroscience
Thank You Slide

▪ I want to say a big thank you to

– My mentor Mr. Macias.
– My instructor, Mrs. Click
– My evaluators
– And to my partner
Works Cited