EFFECT OF MUSIC ON

BLOOD PRESSURE
Elaina Benedetto
714
 Problem
• Does music effect blood pressure ?
 Hypothesis
• My hypothesis is that the fast tempo
music will raise peoples blood
pressure. I think the slow tempo
music will lower their blood
pressure.
• I base my hypothesis on my
observations that people are
affected by the tempo of music.
Bouncy music has a tendency to
make people more active, and soft
has a tendency to calm people.
 Materials
Quantity item
2 Stop watches
1 Tape recorder
3 Chair
1 Blood pressure machine with a adult
medium
th
cuff
8 7 grade girls
1 Tape of fast tempo classical music
1 Tape of slow tempo classical music
 Procedure
• 4. Have all girls rest by sitting quietly in
a chair for 5 minutes.
5. Take the girls blood pressure before
playing any music and record on data
sheet.
6. Play a slow tempo song for 4
minutes at volume level 5.
7. Immediately after 3 minutes have
the nurse take the girls blood
pressure and record on data sheet.
8. Repeat steps 4,6,7 again so you
can test with fast tempo.
9. Repeat steps 5-9 with the
remaining students.
 Controls
• The amount of time music is played
• Gender of subjects
• Approximate age of subjects
• Type of music and exact selections
• Method of taking blood pressure
including the blood pressure taking
tool
• Subjects resting in chair before and
measurements
• Blood pressure taken before music
played
• Blood pressure taken while music is still
 Variable
C children
• The variable is the
• The type of music they listened to
(fast tempo and slow tempo)
•
 Observation
• The results of the experiment were
that the slow tempo music blood
pressure lowered and the fast
tempo music systolic higher but
diastolic lowered.
•
 CONCLUSION
• My hypothesis was that the fast tempo music
would raise a girls blood pressure. I also
thought the slow tempo music would lower
their blood pressure.
• The results indicate that this hypothesis should
be rejected because on the fast tempo music
the diastolic pressure lowered and the systolic
went higher.
• Because of the results of this experiment, I
wonder if it would be the same results if I
conducted the experiment on boys.
• If I were to conduct this project again I would
probably test more subjects so I was able to
get more information.  I also would have used
more softer music and bouncier music.  I also