Course: Music Psychology: Why Does "Bohemian Rhapsody" Feel so Good?

The Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University is one of Australia’s leading music and performing arts schools, offering a wide variety of specialist degrees, from classical music, jazz, opera, popular music to …

For those of you interested in pursuing this body of knowledge further, here’s some more resources. Firstly, in the music psychology course Tim teaches through the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University, …

Now we will look at how the way the different sections of Bohemian Rhapsody are ordered, to explain just how Queen make different parts of the song feel really good. …

Let’s give you a refresher on Bohemian Rhapsody and what was going on around the song in 1975 and 1991/1992 when it was a hit. So here we get to …

The music psychologist Jaak Panksepp did a fascinating series of experiments where he was interested in measuring the musical experience of ‘chills’: that bodily sensation where the hairs on your …

One of the things about music, in almost any style, is that we have expectations about different sections of the song happening in a certain order. In almost every pop …

Our emotions are not only physiological and cognitive but they’re also very much about the events that occur to us. We not only feel emotions, but we feel emotions about …

Welcome back to the final week of the course. We’re so pleased you could join us as we continue our journey to understanding why Bohemian Rhapsody makes you feel so …

Let’s recap week one and look forward to what’s ahead when we meet again. Thanks for joining us this week and we’re happy you’ve made it this far into the …

The brain does a lot of things that we’re not aware of, because being aware of them would just get in the way. Though you think you may know nothing …

Essentially, for music to make sense to us, our brain has to constantly compare the notes and sounds we hear to notes and sounds we’ve previously heard. In the previous …

Music doesn’t just exist. We perceive music because we turn vibrations of the air into conscious experience. So how does that happen? At a very basic level, the music that …

What happens to how we react to music if someone changes our brain chemistry? When you watched the Capilano Suspension Bridge experiment video, you might have been a little confused …

Emotions are both physiological and cognitive, as this famous experiment involving an attractive woman and a scary bridge demonstrates. For this step of the course, we’ve put together a video …

At concerts, we can share in a powerful emotional experience with other concertgoers we’ve never met before – music. So let’s start by watching a famous example of people clearly …