2019 Choice Outstanding Academic Title
Can music really arouse emotions? If so, what emotions, and how? Based on ground-breaking research, Musical Emotions Explained explores how music expresses and arouses emotions, and how it becomes an object of aesthetic judgments. The book is accessibly written by one of the leading researchers in the field worldwide.
Can music really arouse emotions? If so, what emotions, and how? Based on ground-breaking research, Musical Emotions Explained explores how music expresses and arouses emotions, and how it becomes an object of aesthetic judgments. The book is accessibly written by one of the leading researchers in the field worldwide.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Part I: Introduction
- 1: Setting the Stage: Overture in C Major
- 2: The Book's Composition: Aim and Structure
- 3: The Value of a Psychological Approach
- 4: Music, Experience, and Affect
- Part II: Expression and Perception of Emotion
- 5: What Is Meant by Emotional Expression?
- 6: Empirical Studies: What Have We Learned?
- 7: Music as Expression: Objections and Obstacles
- 8: Breaking the Code: The Musical Features
- 9: How Are Music and Emotion Links Studied?
- 10: Viewing Music Through a Brunswikian Lens
- 11: The Voice of Angels? Iconic Expression
- 12: Further Layers: Intrinsic and Associative Expression
- 13: Deviation From the Exact: The Role of the Performer
- Part III: Arousal of Emotion
- 14: Beyond Perception: When Music Moves Us
- 15: Does Music Arouse Emotions? How Do We Know?
- 16: The Prevalence of Emotional Reactions
- 17: How Does Music Arouse Emotions?
- 18: Jumping at Shadows: Brain Stem Reflex
- 19: Get Into the Groove: Rhythmic Entrainment
- 20: Mirroring the Expression: Contagion
- 21: Ring My Bell: Evaluative Conditioning
- 22: Blast From the Past: Episodic Memory
- 23: Seeing in the Mind's Eye: Visual Imagery
- 24: What Comes Next? Musical Expectancy
- 25: Predictions, Implications, Complications
- Part IV: Aesthetic Judgment
- 26: Aesthetics: The Hard Problem?
- 27: Traditional Approaches to Aesthetics
- 28: What's Special? Adopting the Aesthetic Attitude
- 29: Aesthetic Criteria: Meet the Usual Suspects!
- 30: A Novel Approach Towards Aesthetic Judgment
- 31: Aesthetics and Affect in Broader Perspective
- 32: The Last Chorus: Putting It All Together
- 33: Coda: Final Outlook
- Appendix: The Lens Model Equation
