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Music structure and emotional response: Some empirical findings.
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The authors found that laughter, tears, shivers, and lump in the throat elicited by musical passages are the most reliably evoked by passages containing sequences and appogiaturas.Abstract:
Eighty-three music listeners completed a questionnaire in which thev provided information about the occurrence of a range of physical reactions while listening to music. Shivers down the spine, laughter, tears and lump in the throat were reported by over 80(% of respondents. Respondents were asked to locate specific musical passages that reliably evoked such responses. Structural analysis of these passages showed that tears were most reliablN evoked by passages containing sequences and appogiaturas, while shivers were most reliably evoked by passages containing new or unexpected harmonies. The data generally support theoretical approaches to elmotion based on confirmations and violations of expectancv.read more
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Intensely pleasurable responses to music correlate with activity in brain regions implicated in reward and emotion
Anne J. Blood,Robert J. Zatorre +1 more
TL;DR: This finding links music with biologically relevant, survival-related stimuli via their common recruitment of brain circuitry involved in pleasure and reward.
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Emotional responses to music: The need to consider underlying mechanisms
TL;DR: It is concluded that music evokes emotions through mechanisms that are not unique to music, and that the study of musical emotions could benefit the emotion field as a whole by providing novel paradigms for emotion induction.
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Anatomically distinct dopamine release during anticipation and experience of peak emotion to music
TL;DR: It is found that intense pleasure in response to music can lead to dopamine release in the striatal system, and this results help to explain why music is of such high value across all human societies.
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Emotional responses to pleasant and unpleasant music correlate with activity in paralimbic brain regions.
TL;DR: The findings suggest that music may recruit neural mechanisms similar to those previously associated with pleasant/unpleasant emotional states, but different from those underlying other components of music perception, and other emotions such as fear.
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An exploratory study of musical emotions and psychophysiology
TL;DR: Physiological measures were recorded while listners heard two excerpts chosen to represent each of three emotions: sad, fear, and happy, and found significant differences among the excerpts.
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Perception of the Major/Minor Distinction: IV. Emotional Connotations in Young Children
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors listen to 12 short musical passages derived from a counterbalanced 2 × 2 arrangement of (1) major versus minor modes and (2) harmonized versus simple melodic realizations of these modes.
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Cognitive bases of musical communication
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TL;DR: The cognitive bases of musical communication can help to solve the problem of where to get the ideas for writing as discussed by the authors, which can be one of the right sources to develop a writing skill.