The emotional power of music : multidisciplinary perspectives on musical arousal, expression, and social control / edited by Tom Cochrane, Bernardino Fantini, Klaus R. Scherer.
Musical expressiveness. Section introduction / Tom Cochrane ; Sad flowers : analyzing affective trajectory in Schubert's "Trockne Blumen" / Michael Spitzer ; Composing the expressive qualities of music / Tom Cochrane ; The emotional power of musical performance / Daniel Leech-Wilkinson ; The singer's paradox : on authenticity in emotional expression on the opera stage / Klaus R. Scherer ; On the resistance of the instrument / Tom Cochrane ; Gender ambivalence and the expression of passions in the performances of early Roman cantatas by castrati and female singers / Christine Jeanneret ; The ethos of modes during the Renaissance / Claude Victor Palisca -- Emotion elicitation. Section introduction / Klaus R. Scherer ; How music creates emotion : a multifactorial process approach / Klaus R. Scherer and Eduardo Coutinho ; "Mors stupebit" : multiple levels of fear-arousing mechanisms in Verdi's Messa da Requiem / Luca Zoppelli ; Three theories of emotion : three routes for musical arousal / Jenefer Robinson ; Music-to-listener emotional contagion / Stephen Davies ; Empathy, enaction, and shared musical experience : evidence from infant cognition / Joel Krueger ; Music, action, and affect / Lincoln John Colling and William Forde Thompson ; Rhythmic entrainment as a mechanism for emotion induction by music : a neurophysiological perspective / Wiebke Trost and Patrik Vuilleumier ; Striking a chord in the brain : neurophysiological correlates of music-evoked positive emotions / Stefan Koelsch -- The powers of music. Section introduction / Bernardino Fantini ; Forms of thought between music and science / Bernardino Fantini (translation by Kristen Gray Jafflin) ; Control and the science of affect : music and power in the medieval and Renaissance periods / Laurence Wuidar (translation by Kristen Gray Jafflin) ; The psychotropic power of music during the Renaissance / Brenno Boccadoro (translation by Kristen Gray Jafflin) ; Music as a means of social control : some examples of practice and theory in early modern Europe / Penelope Gouk ; The tradition of ancient music therapy in the 18th century / Jackie Pigeaud (translation by Kristen Gray Jafflin) ; On nostalgia / Jean Starobinski (translation by Kristen Gray Jafflin) ; Emotions, identity, and copyright control : the constitutive role of affect attunement and its implications for the ontology of music / Ulrik Volgsten -- Appendix to "Gender ambivalence and the expression of passions" / Christine Jeanneret.
Summary:
How can an abstract sequence of sounds so intensely express emotional states? How does music elicit or arouse our emotions? What happens at the physiological and neural level when we listen to music? How do composers and performers practically manage the expressive powers of music? How have societies sought to harness the powers of music for social or therapeutic purposes? In the past ten years, research into the topic of music and emotion has flourished. In addition, the relationship between the two has become of interest to a broad range of disciplines in both the sciences and humanities. The Emotional Power of Music is a multidisciplinary volume exploring the relationship between music and emotion. Bringing together contributions from psychologists, neuroscientists, musicologists, musicians, and philosophers, the volume presents both theoretical perspectives and in-depth explorations of particular musical works, as well as first-hand reports from music performers and composers--back cover.
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