I would think it would calm/relax the nerves

Music is the common language of the world that everyone understands. Soothing soft classical music calms down the spirit which relaxes the material body and allows the mind to shed anxiety and the troubles that cause it. Large stores use music to put people in a good mood and people in a good mood spend more money. Research has proven it and that’s why so many public places use it.

Go to answers.com at search of site type effect of classical music on the nervous system . You get related links go through them.

no effect at all, something called the “Mozart effect”, the supposed relaxation and concentration you think you feel when you listen to classical music is only temporary, about 7 mins. It does not make smarter at all, it is only a myth.

Soothing and meditative to wrenching and sad.

I can only tell you that classical music completely gets on my NERVES. So I guess you could say it drives my nervous system crazy for crying out loud!

Classical music calms me down when I am driving in heavy traffic. And is relaxing when I want to go to sleep.

Honestly classical music creeps out the hairs on the back of my neck …not all the time but sometimes …I cant explain it. Its probably the same feeling that a classical music fan would get from listening to deth metal…only reversed.

All music has rhythm. It is movement heard, felt, and seen. Listening to Mozart’s music and focusing on rhythm alone involves attention to complex elements that provide temporal cohesion in music and organizes and structures sounds in time. Rhythm embodies beat, pulse, accent, meter, duration, tempo, density, texture, form, and rhythmic patterns. If one were to listen to music with all these in mind, certainly the brain will be well stimulated. Yet musical elements go beyond rhythm to include melody, harmony, timbre, style, dynamics, meaning and emotion. Eurhythmics activates a feeling for music which, in Greek terms, includes dance and drama. A sense of order and balance is created internally, and imagination develops simultaneously. Such an approach to music education encompasses cognitive, affective, and psychomotor behaviors.

Honestly if it is a science project opinion means nothing. Science has to be verifiable and repeatable. Just lay out a classic experiment doing scientific method.

For example hypothesize that classic music has a calming effect. Grab a sample of people and take their pulse before and after listening to the music. Record your results and viola. Simple.