Title: EMOTIONAL RESPONSES TO MUSIC AND THEIR MUSICAL, INDIVIDUAL, AND SITUATIONAL FACTORS: AN INTEGRATIVE APPROACH
Abstract: Music is an important source of stimulation, answering listeners’ multiple needs, bringing them a variety of perceptions, providing them with affective, cognitive, and aesthetic experience. This paper refers to the selected theoretical approaches to the emotional responses to music. It presents exemplary research topics concerning the relationship between music and emotion. These topics are situated in the context of general theories of emotion, and special attention is paid to their physiological and phenomenological aspect. The complexity and variability of affective experience inherent in the process of music perception are explained with reference to the interaction between the music profile and a listener’s profile. The emotional response to music is considered as an interaction effect of the properties of music, relatively stable traits of a listener, his or her momentary state, and the situation in which he or she is exposed to music. The paper proposes an integrative view of how music evokes emotional responses and points out to the links they have with the practice of self-regulation and music therapy.
Publication Year: 2015
Publication Date: 2015-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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