Effects of Background Music on Musical Task Performance and Subsequent Music Preference
- 1 October 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Perceptual and Motor Skills
- Vol. 49 (1) , 39-45
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pms.1979.49.1.39
Abstract
The present study examined the effects of background music on performance of a musical task and on subsequent preference for that music. 60 music and 60 non-music majors heard background music in music-only or music-plus-task conditions, and a third group heard no music in a task-only condition. A preference test of four musical excerpts, including the background music excerpt, was administered subsequently to all three groups of subjects. Although music majors scored higher than non-majors, background music did not differentially affect task scores. Music students exhibited a differential preference following both musical conditions, while non-music subjects demonstrated differential preference only following the music-only condition.This publication has 17 references indexed in Scilit:
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