[20] Giddings, op. cit. pp. 238-239.
[21] Morgan: Ancient Peoples.
[22] Giddings’ Descriptive and Historical Sociology, pp. 186 to 212.
[23] Morgan’s Ancient Peoples.
[24] Helmholtz, Sensations of Tone, Part I, p. 8.
[25] Giddings’ Descriptive and Historical Sociology, p. 346.
CHAPTER III.
Group and Individual Reaction to Music.
A Brief Record of Experiments.
Music tranquillizes human agitation. We believe that enough of musical vibration will tranquillize all agitation, whether it be such as is manifested in abnormal mental, or abnormal physical movements. Music acts differently upon those low states of motion represented by the phlegmatic temperament and rural communities. Here music excites more than it does when colliding with agitated nerve motions. These two marked effects of music were noticed by the author in the following experiences which extended over a period of many years, among all of the classes which compose the civilized group:
From Concerts through Canada and Western U. S.