Source note · R099
The Band Effect—Physically Strenuous Music Making Increases Esthetic Appreciation of Music
Despite its title, this experiment concerns exercise-controlled electronic music, not a conventional band.
- Setting
- Related music & arts
- Kind of evidence
- Intervention studies
- Review extent
- Appraisal and selected source sections checked
What was studied
Within-subject experiments involved 27 drug-abuse patients and 24 chronic-pain patients using exercise machines that controlled electronic music, compared with passive listening.
What it contributes
Twenty-seven drug-abuse patients and 24 chronic-pain patients rated music generated through exercise-controlled electronic apparatus more positively than similar passively heard music.
Where the evidence stops
Two small within-subject clinical samples used electronic exercise machines that controlled music; this is not a conventional wind/brass/percussion band. Generalization beyond the apparatus and patient groups is limited. The apparatus combined music with exercise; the effects of ordinary group playing cannot be isolated from this design.
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Source note updated September 9, 2026. Read our approach to evidence.