Types of Music and Their Effect
Different types of music produce a wide range of different results in plants . A 2014 study published in the International Journal of Environmental Science and Development looked at the effects five different types of music had on the growth of 30 different pots of a singular rose species . The music genres for this study were Indian classical music , Vedic chants , Western classical music , and rock music . ( The researchers were Indian , so they chose some types of music indigenous to that region and included others that were not .) The fifth group , the control group , was not exposed to any music .
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WITH VERY LITTLE exception , the plants exposed to the classical music outgrew and outyielded those exposed to jazz or those that grew in silence .”
The researchers observed and measured several aspects of plant growth over a 60-day period . They looked at shoot elongation ( length of branches ), internode elongation ( distance between branches on the main stem ), and the abundance and size of the flowers . Their observations were as follows :
• THE PLANTS exposed to Vedic chants experienced the most amount of growth at 3.08 inches ( in .), though those exposed to Indian classical music were close behind at 2.89 in . Western classical music , silence , and rock music trailed behind with the average growth measured at 2.07 in ., 1.9 in ., and 1.44 in ., respectively .
• THE AVERAGE length of internodal elongation was highest with the Indian classical and Vedic chants , with lengths of 1.57 in . and 1.5 in ., respectively . Interestingly , the plants exposed to silence were next longest at 1.06 in ., while Western classical and rock came in at 0.86 in . and 0.53 in .
• THE ROSES that were exposed to the Vedic chants were also the most floriferous , with an average number of 0.68 blooms per plant ( not all plants in the groups produced flowers ). The plants exposed to Indian classical music averaged 0.6 flowers per plant . The ones exposed to Western classical produced 0.53 per plant , the ones with no music produced 0.48 , and the ones exposed to rock produced an average of 0.38 flowers . feature 43