Background: Medical education poses immense stress on undergraduate medical students due to workload __ampersandsignamp; competitive clinical training environment. A high level of stress has a negative effect on cognition. Music intervention is known to reduce stress, thereby improving cognition. High emotional intelligence subjects cope well with their own emotions as well as respond better to patients emotions thereby have a good patient-doctor relationship. With this background, the Effect of Raga Malkauns __ampersandsignamp; Yaman on general __ampersandsignamp; emotional intelligence is assessed in this study. Materials and Methods: Thirty undergraduate medical students of both genders were recruited randomly based on inclusion __ampersandsignamp; exclusion criteria. Assessment of emotional intelligence __ampersandsignamp; general intelligence was done before and after music intervention. Pre-recorded music Raga Malkauns __ampersandsignamp; Yaman was heard by students for 6days /week for 6 weeks in the department of Physiology. Results: After music intervention, significant improvement in general intelligence test - DSST (digit symbol substitution test) scores (p=0.0005) but not in global emotional intelligence or any of the four subscales of EI (p__ampersandsigngt;0.41). Conclusion: Listening to music helps in the improvement of GI thereby helps in improving academic performance. No improvement in EI was noted.