Studies on the effects of music are as
old as music itself, and over the years
different branches of science have
focused on analyzing this issue. Back
in the 19th century, a field known as
‘tone psychology’ took up the cause,
followed by the 20th-century disciplines of music psychology and music
physiology, which studied how the
brain processes music. However, any40
one who had hoped that these developments would contribute to solving
the puzzle ended up disappointed.
Nowadays we even use highly sophisticated equipment and systematically
structured research projects but we
have yet to resolve the key question:
how and why does music produce
feelings?