MUSI20150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation, World Health Organization, 4Music
2 Aug 2018
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Lecture 4
Music and physical activity
Music to support physical activity and healthy ageing: Preventative healthy
• Healthy lifestyle habit
• Music supports this aging process
Physical activity: What does the WHO recommend?
• Adults of any age including those with health conditions are encouraged to exercise:
o A minimum of 150 minutes moderate (e.g. brisk walking) to (e.g. running)
physical activity every week
o At least 5 days per week for 30 minutes or more
o In bouts of at least 10 minutes
World Health organisation - Deaths resulting from heart disease
Music, exercise and sport
• Music is recognised performance enhancer and banned by many governing
sporting associations during competition
• Integral in some sports (gymnastics, aerobics)
• Important for others (footy songs, chants, themes)
• Associations with exercise (e.g. Chariots of fire and running, gonna fly and boxing)
How does music support physical activity and exercise?
• Rhythmic features
o Beat: the underlying pulse that you tap your foot to
o Rhythm: Beats assented and distributed over time
▪ Accentuated beat (weak/strong) - there’s a pattern)
▪ Build up anticipation 預期
o Tempo: the speed of the music measured as beats per minute
How does music support physical activity and exercise?
• Melodic features
o Melody/tune: notes or pitch that move in patterns and sequences
o Harmony: Combination of notes working together to shape mood
o Form: Arrangement of segments in music (verse, chorus, bridge) builds
anticipation and guides exercise duration
o Lyrics: evocative or motivating messages
Theoretical concepts
• How music supports people?
o Physiological arousal and subjective
experience
• Physiological arousal
o Train with music (syn)
o Neurological response: heart rate/ respiratory rate/ stimulating hormone/
excitable muscles/ alertness
• Subjective experience
o Experience: Age, kind of music you like, association, mood
o Diversion: dissociative (distraction from boredom)
Cortical and subcortical response
• Music mimics rhythms and patterns born within our bodies
• Music is a resource that our brains readily recognise, interpret and understand
• Stimulating effects of music are so strong that it is more difficult to ignore than to
interact
• We consciously select music to regulate the intensity of physiological arousal and
subjective experience to support levels of physical activity required for particular
types of exercise
