We also review neuroimaging studies related to music and emotion and focus on those that deal with sadness. Sadness evoked by music is found pleasurable: (1) when it is perceived as non-threatening (2) when it is aesthetically pleasing and (3) when it produces psychological benefits such as mood regulation, and empathic feelings, caused, for example, by recollection of and reflection on past events. We offer a framework to account for how listening to sad music can lead to positive feelings, contending that this effect hinges on correcting an ongoing homeostatic imbalance. Why is it, then, that while human survival depends on preventing painful experiences, mental pain often turns out to be explicitly sought through music? In this article we consider why and how sad music can become pleasurable. Compared to other art forms, music has an exceptional ability to evoke a wide-range of feelings and is especially beguiling when it deals with grief and sorrow. Here, we focus on the fact that music regarded as sad is often experienced as pleasurable. In an aesthetic context, however, sadness is often associated with some degree of pleasure, as suggested by the ubiquity and popularity, throughout history, of music, plays, films and paintings with a sad content. Sadness is generally seen as a negative emotion, a response to distressing and adverse situations.

Brain and Creativity Institute, Dornsife College of Letters Arts and Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

My right hand pointing to landscapes of continents and the public road.Matthew E. My left hand hooking you round the waist,

I lead no man to a dinner-table, library, exchange,īut each man and each woman of you I lead upon a knoll, I have no chair, no church, no philosophy,

No friend of mine takes his ease in my chair, My signs are a rain-proof coat, good shoes, and a staff cut from the woods, I tramp a perpetual journey, (come listen all!) I know I have the best of time and space, and was never measured and never will be measured. My son emailed me – “Where did you find this?” so I sent him a link to this page. When I left teaching, students gave me a gift: Leaves of Grass. When I was a teacher, I used the following passage all the time. Especially on this day in this era, as those of us in America work to keep our foundation and legacy healthy. Thank you, thank you, thank you for this.

Sad soft music for poetry