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Feelings and the enjoyment of music

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 2008

Alexander Rozin  and
Paul Rozin
Alexander Rozin
Affiliation:
School of Music, West Chester University, West Chester, PA 19383arozin@wcupa.eduhttp://www.wcupa.edu/CVPA/som/mt_faculty_arozin.html
Paul Rozin
Affiliation:
School of Music, West Chester University, West Chester, PA 19383arozin@wcupa.eduhttp://www.wcupa.edu/CVPA/som/mt_faculty_arozin.html Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6196rozin@psych.upenn.eduhttp://www.psych.upenn.edu/~rozin/
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Abstract

We wonder about tying the universal appeal of music to emotion as defined by psychologists. Music is more generally about feelings, and many of these, such as moods and pleasures, are central to the enjoyment of music and fall outside the domain of emotion. The critical component of musical feelings is affective intensity, resulting from syntactically generated implications and their outcomes.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 31 , Issue 5 , October 2008 , pp. 593 - 594
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008

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