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There hasn't been much research specifically looking at whether music enhances the quality of sleep, but potential reasons include relaxing, diversion from negative thoughts, and masking distracting background noise. It's important to remember that the majority of this research involves people's self-reported sleep. Each morning, participants are in a randomized crossover experiment, and they are required to answer questions regarding their previous night's sleep. Even though this gives us important information about people's perception of their music and is related to many significant outcomes, we can't conclude that music has any actual influence. There are too many other factors that play into whether someone had a good night of rest, like how much deep sleep participants got or how restless they were during the night, which have been linked to physical and mental health. Studies show that music with legato (as opposed to staccato) articulation, moderate to medium rhythmic activity, and a lower main frequency range is often successful at lulling listeners to sleep. Some examples of successful music include J’y suis jamais allĂ© (Tiersen, 2010), Moonlight Sonata (Beethoven, 2010), You Are So Beautiful (Gibson & Evans, 2017), Clair de Lune (Debussy, 2008), and My Piano, the Clouds (Paterlini, 2013).
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