Music technology in the classroom

Why do I get goosebumps at the movies?

You know how you get that prickly feeling in the hairs on the back of your neck, when the really scary scene in a movie comes on? How much of that is induced by the soundtrack of the movie. Think about the really exciting movies you have seen in the last few years. How many of them have theme songs that you can hum in your head without prompting. Why does our mind lock those songs in so that even though we do not own the soundtrack or the written transcript, we remember not only the song, but the emotions that go with it.

Some examples:
Jaws
Psycho (the shower scene) read more in Wikipedia
Star Wars

Can you name other examples?

Forum question: Why do you think music affects us like it does? What part of our psyche embraces music? How can we use music in a similar way in our classroom...to provide mystique, to create excitement, to portray sadness, etc...that goes along with the activity we are involved with?

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