Musical emotions explained : unlocking the secrets of musical affect

Summary: "... Why do listeners respond with different emotions to the same piece of music? ... Based on ground-breaking research, [this book] explores how music expresses and arouses emotions, and how it becomes an object of aesthetic judgments ... Juslin demonstrates how psychological mechanisms ... engage with meanings in music at multiple levels of the brain to evoke ... affective states - from startle responses to profound aesthetic emotions ..."--Dust jacket.

Record details

ISBN: 019875342X
ISBN: 9780198753421
Physical Description: print
xiv, 609 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019.
Copyright: ©2019

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 517-561) and indexes.
Formatted Contents Note:	Part I. Introduction -- Part II. Expression and perception of emotion -- Part III. Arousal of emotion -- Part IV. Aesthetic judgment -- Appendix. The Lens model equation and its use in modeling musical communication.