Basic Research on Music Prescriptions - Second Experiment With Classical Music
Hirotoshi Hishida, Shigehiro Hashimoto, Kaito Saeki, Hikaru Kono, Keiko Hishida · 2023
Abstract The authors assume that the stress state can be expressed by a value, SMB, and are trying to develop a method to change the value in an appropriate direction by music. This paper compares the results of the music therapy experiment conducted in 2022 with those in 2020. Subjects are recruited and classified into four groups according to whether they know the pieces played and whether they like the music. Some subjects wear the pulse oximeter throughout the concert. Other methods are employed to measure the stress states of all subjects at the beginning, the intermission, and the end of the concert. Based on the experiment, the possibility of prescribing classical music to patients is recognized. The same music has different effects on the subjects, depending on the type of music and the subject’s characteristics such as gender and whether he/she likes the music. The effects also differ depending on the piano player. In other words, prescribing music would not be simply selecting songs according to the symptoms. In the future, the music database will be grown up and the experimental methods using public concerts will be improved. Some of the stress measurement methods employed in this experiment may be combined to determine SMD.