A Hypothetical Study for Musical Influence on Time

Abstract

This study analyses how time affects the passing sense of time.  Music will directly influence the feeling of human mind, so that this study examined a hypothesis that tempo, harmony, melody will influence the sense of time in reality. An experiment dealt with “Variations on Ah! vous dirais-je, Maman,” Mozart, which varied the basic music for 12 different modes.  The result showed that quiet music will make feel a shorter, and dynamic music will make feel a longer.