The influence of traditional music on the students’ emotions and behavior
The influence of traditional music on the students’ emotions and behavior

Summary/Abstract: When it comes about people’s behavior, comparing the students from rural communities with students from urban areas, most of the times it is said that the first ones are more polite in speaking and in their actions, kinder, happier and open minded, preferring outdoors or practical activities, due to the fact that they live in a traditional environment where the system of values transmitted through music, specific activities, way of addressing to people and living style. Even more, various scientific studies in medicine and in psychology had successfully proved that music can play a major role not only in influencing people’s emotions and behavior as a consequence of a natural, rudimentary manner of listening to music practiced by everyone, but also in improving or healing them if we refer to music therapy. Correlating those two ideas, there are a few questions that can be put: Is there any connection between students’ emotions and behavior and the traditional music which they listen more often? Can folklore really influence the emotions and behavior? In which way can traditional music be used to improve or to change students’ emotions and behavior? The present research study has as starting point the fact that being a teacher in a rural school the opportunity to observe students’ emotions and behavior led to a real challenge of finding the aspects in which the folklore manifests its influence. That is why the necessity of answering the questions risen and expressed above became more attractive and also an interesting thing to take into consideration. In order to illustrate as accurately as possible the entire process of improving students’ emotions and behavior and to highlight the major changes and differences between the initial and the final picture of the case, a 21 days program implementation and a comparative analysis were needed.

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