Music seeps into our everyday life. Past research has shown that memory is affected by music key, which tend to be associated with different emotions. More research needs to be conducted concerning mood and music key on memory (Mead and Ball, 2007). Our study is focused on music tonality’s impact on context-dependent memory and context congruence when recalling emotionally valent words. This study would peak the interest of college students who often listen to music while studying and any science or music major who would like to see the relationship between music and memory. We expect to present results suggesting that participants exposed to words and music that provoke the same emotion will remember more words than participants exposed to words and music that do not provoke the same emotion.
