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Feelings Which Strike a Chord, and Chords Which Strike a Feeling
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Abstract The first part of this article addresses the main premise of the Theory of Musical
Equilibration. It states that in contrast to previous hypotheses, music does
not directly describe emotions: instead; it evokes processes of the will which
the listener identifies with. It is not until these proces... view more
The first part of this article addresses the main premise of the Theory of Musical
Equilibration. It states that in contrast to previous hypotheses, music does
not directly describe emotions: instead; it evokes processes of the will which
the listener identifies with. It is not until these processes are experienced that
music appears to take on an emotional character. The second part of the article
focuses on demonstrating the emotional nature of musical harmonies.
The Basic Test and the Rocky Test are presented. These tests were designed to
find correlations between chords and scenes from fairy tales as well as emotional
terms. 86% of the participants correlated the musical selection to the
emotion outlined by the Theory of Musical Equilibration the authors developed
in this context.... view less
Classification
Applied Psychology
Free Keywords
Music; Psychology of Music; Music theory; Music and Emotions; Theory of Musical Equilibration; Strebetendenz-Theorie; Chords; Music Therapy
Document language
English
Publication Year
2017
Page/Pages
p. 10-17
Journal
Open Journal of Acoustics, 7 (2017) 1
ISSN
2162-5794
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed