MUSIC AND THE PSYCHOLOGY OF CHANGE
Abstract
This paper sees music as a field of discipline that has survived different eras of human civilization. Eras that have exhibited different types of development. According to the paper, these changing phases of development are the only permanent thing in life and that nothing is more obvious than the constancy of change. It however sees change as the result of a process and psychology of change as those things that are affected by the process. The paper relates music with the change process through its instrumentation and lyrics. The internet, music books and journals were consulted for this paper. It concludes with the view that the delicate handling of the instrumentation and lyrics of music has greatly enhanced the psychology of change and that this quality should constantly be exploited.
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