Emotion Production and Classification Flashcards
What is a key debate in music and emotion and focus of genre?
Debate on how emotions and genres are classified
Debate on how genres are matched onto personalities
What is a debate in music surrounding emotion?
Basic emotions vs complex emotions
Can music produce basic or complex emotions?
Complex emotions may be a ‘blend’ of basic emotions
What are different perspectives of research in the psychology of music?
Some studies may use music as a tool to evoke emotion
Some studies may want you to respond in terms of your emotion to pieces of music
Some studies are about classification
What are limitations of the classification of emotions and music?
Lots of debate
Lots of uncertainties
Over-generalisation of the components of emotion under investigation
Lots of effects of individual differences
What are things to think about in terms of research?
What components of emotion are they talking about? Is there over-generalisation of the components?
Is the research from the perspective of the composer, performer, or listener?
Who are the participants?
Think about the conceptualisation of emotion in the context of categories etc.
What are 2 possible sources of emotion?
Structural elements of music
Personal associations with the music
Explain Juslin & Laukka’s (2004) review on emotions reported by participants in relation to music
Presents findings from a questionnaire study which found a list of 44 frequently reported emotions when listening to music
What are the top 10 emotions participants reported when listening to music (Juslin & Laukka, 2004)?
Happy Sad Pleasurable Loving Relaxed Calm Moved Longing Nostalgic Tender
What do findings from Juslin & Laukka’s (2004) report tell us?
Basic and complex emotions can be felt when listening to music.
Participants listed more than the 6 basic emotions.
How can music elicit emotions?
Structural features
Performance features
Listener features
Contextual features
Who put forward that the emotion experienced from listening to music is evoked by a formula of four different features of the music?
Scherer & Zentner (2001)
What is the dimensional approach to emotion research?
Valence
Arousal
2D dimensional space
Plot where emotions land
What cloud the picture in terms of how we classify emotions and music?
Conceptual disagreements cloud the picture
