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Emotional Expression in Music Performance: Between the Performer's Intention and the Listener's Experience:
Alf Gabrielsson,Patrik N. Juslin +1 more
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In this paper, nine professional musicians were instructed to perform short melodies using various instruments -the violin, electric guitar, flute, and singing voice - so as to communicate specific emotional characters to listeners.Abstract:
Nine professional musicians were instructed to perform short melodies using various instruments - the violin, electric guitar, flute, and singing voice - so as to communicate specific emotional characters to listeners. The performances were first validated by having listeners rating the emotional expression and then analysed with regard to their physical characteristics, e.g. tempo, dynamics, timing, and spectrum. The main findings were that (a) the performer's expressive intention had a marked effect on all analysed variables; (b) the performers showed many similarities as well as individual differences in emotion encoding; (c) listeners were generally successful in decoding the intended expression; and (d) some emotional characters seemed easier to communicate than others. The reported results imply that we are unlikely to find performance rules independent of instrument, musical style, performer, or listener.read more
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Communication of emotions in vocal expression and music performance: different channels, same code?
Patrik N. Juslin,Petri Laukka +1 more
TL;DR: A review of 104 studies of vocal expression and 41 studies of music performance reveals similarities between the two channels concerning (a) the accuracy with which discrete emotions were communicated to listeners and (b) the emotion-specific patterns of acoustic cues used to communicate each emotion as mentioned in this paper.
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The singing Neanderthals: The origins of music, language, mind, and body
TL;DR: Mithen argues that musicality is a fundamental part of being human, that this capacity is of great antiquity, and that a holistic protolanguage of musical emotive expression predates language and was an essential precursor to it as discussed by the authors.
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A Cross-Cultural Investigation of the Perception of Emotion in Music: Psychophysical and Cultural Cues
TL;DR: This paper found that listeners are sensitive to musically expressed emotion in an unfamiliar tonal system, and that this sensitivity is facilitated by psychophysical cues such as tempo, rhythmic complexity, melodic complexity, and pitch range.
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A comparison of the discrete and dimensional models of emotion in music
Tuomas Eerola,Jonna K. Vuoskoski +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compare perceived emotions in music using two different theoretical frameworks: the discrete emotion model, and the dimensional model of affect, and propose a new, improved set of stimuli for the study of music-mediated emotions.
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Music and emotion: perceptual determinants, immediacy, and isolation after brain damage
TL;DR: The results show that emotional judgments are (a) highly consistent across subjects and resistant to brain damage; (b) determined by musical structure (mode and tempo); and (c) immediate.
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