Persuasive

Listening to classical music while studying is more impactful than listening to other genres. When listening to classical music, people are able to stay more focused, music helps improve people’s overall mood, and it helps people relax as well as allows them to take more information in.

To begin, listening to classical music promoted people to stay focused on their work for many reasons. In an article written by Therese Goussy regarding whether or not classical music can help people study, she mentions, “one study did show that students who listened to a one-hour lecture with classical music playing in the background retained more of the information than a group who heard the lecture with no music” (Therese, 2018). Some reasoning behind this can relate towards the classical music drowning out the background noise, as well as potential distractions. Similarly, while studying, utilizing classical music can help decrease distractions allowing more studying to occur. 

Adding onto that point, while studying, listening to classical music can also improve a person’s mood. There have been many different forms of research to support this claim. Sharuna Segaren explains in an article she wrote, “listening to music triggers the release of dopamine in our brains. Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that promotes feelings of happiness and excitement. studies have found that people may be better at solving problems when they are in a positive mood compared to when they are in a negative or neutral mood” (Segaren, 2019). A person’s mood plays a huge factor into the effort they put forth into their studying. Staying in a positive mood can increase the quality of studying which is why taking the opportunity to listen to classical music will be beneficial while completing school work.

Finally, classical music leads to people becoming more relaxed and gives them the opportunity to intake more information. Going off of this idea, an article discussing the fact that classical music helps people focus, “Some well-chosen snippets of classical music can put you in a more positive and relaxed frame of mind, all the better to either calm you down from exam stress of make you more receptive to new information” (Unknown Author, 2018). Keeping a relaxed mindset while working on schoolwork can lead to people become more open to learning due to less stress. Music making people feel more relaxed can also relate to music creating a positive mood for students while working.