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Emotions In Strong Experiences With Music
Abstract
In most people’s minds there is a strong association between music and emotions. Music can be felt to express emotions as well as to arouse emotions.While musical expression has been given considerable attention in empirical research (cf. Gabrielsson & Lindström, this volume; Juslin, this volume), emotional reactions to music have been less studied. The purpose of this chapter is to describe emotional reactions that occur in particularly strong experiences of music, and further to explore which factors can elicit such reactions. Strong experiences of music may have many properties in common with other types of strong or exceptional experience, for instance,mystical experience which is described and discussed in many religious contexts. In the following, I first briefly review some earlier research on strong experiences, and then describe a research project on strong experiences of music (Section 19.3) and the associated analysis of emotional reactions (Section 19.4), followed by a discussion (Section 19.5).
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- Authors
- Gabrielsson, A.
- Venue
- Music And Emotion
- Publisher
- Oxford University PressNew York, NY
- Published
- 2001-08-30
- Pages
- 431-450
- OpenAlex
- W1748945383
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- 365
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 10.79
- Type
- book chapter
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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