Module 5 - Creative arts Unit 5.2 - Music: Music in everyday life and advertising
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Do Plants Like Music? 1. 1962, Dr. T. C. Singh, head of the Botany Department 2. Annamalai University, India, experimented 3. the effect of musical sounds on the growth rate 4. plants. He found that balsam plants grew at a rate 5. accelerated by 20% in height and 72% in biomass when exposed to music. He initially experimented with classical music. Later, he experimented with reena, 6. Indian instrument, and he found similar effects. Singh repeated the experiment with field crops and 7. size of crops increased to between 25 to 60% above the regional average. Through his several experiments, Singh concluded that the sound of the violin has the greatest effect 8. plant growth. According to some other studies, jazz music appears to have a beneficial effect, producing better 9. more abundant growth. Other experiments conducted in different countries concluded that plants reacted well 10. any type of music, whether rock, country, jazz, or classical. These experiments, however, were not thoroughly conducted and are highly debatable. Adapted from: https://dengarden.com/gardening/the-effect-of-music-on-plant-growth