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Relations Between Musical Structures and Perceived and Felt Emotions
Ai Kawakami, Kiyoshi Furukawa, Kentaro Katahira, Keiko Kamiyama, Kazuo Okanoya
Music Perception: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Vol. 30 No. 4, December 2012; (pp. 407-417) DOI: 10.1525/mp.2013.30.4.407
Ai Kawakami
Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, Japan
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Kentaro Katahira
Emotional Information Joint Research Laboratory, RIKEN, BSI, Saitama, Japan
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There are two kinds of musical emotions: perceived emotion (expressed by musical pieces) and felt emotion (induced in listeners). In this study, we hypothesized that the emotion perceived by people listening to dissonant music and music in a minor key would not necessarily correspond to the one they felt. Twenty-four participants listened to 21 newly composed musical stimuli and rated the intensities of two kinds of emotions by using a two-dimensional evaluation: valence (pleasant/unpleasant) and arousal (active/passive). ANOVA results showed that the perceived emotion did not always coincide with the felt emotion. Participants with music training listened to minor-key, dissonant, and high-note-density music and rated the felt emotion as less unpleasant or more pleasant than the perceived emotion. This finding may lead to a better understanding of why people sometimes like or otherwise enjoy sad music.

  • musical emotions
  • perceived/felt emotions
  • musical structures
  • minor-key/dissonant/high-note-density music
  • music experience
  • Received May 29, 2011.
  • Accepted July 17, 2012.
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Vol. 30 No. 4, December 2012

Music Perception: An Interdisciplinary Journal: 30 (4)
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Relations Between Musical Structures and Perceived and Felt Emotions
Ai Kawakami, Kiyoshi Furukawa, Kentaro Katahira, Keiko Kamiyama, Kazuo Okanoya
Music Perception: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Vol. 30 No. 4, December 2012; (pp. 407-417) DOI: 10.1525/mp.2013.30.4.407
Ai Kawakami
Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, Japan
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Kiyoshi Furukawa
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Kentaro Katahira
Emotional Information Joint Research Laboratory, RIKEN, BSI, Saitama, Japan
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Keiko Kamiyama
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Ai Kawakami, Kiyoshi Furukawa, Kentaro Katahira, Keiko Kamiyama, Kazuo Okanoya
Music Perception: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Vol. 30 No. 4, December 2012; (pp. 407-417) DOI: 10.1525/mp.2013.30.4.407
Ai Kawakami
Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, Japan
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Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, Japan
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Kentaro Katahira
Emotional Information Joint Research Laboratory, RIKEN, BSI, Saitama, Japan
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Keiko Kamiyama
Emotional Information Joint Research Laboratory, RIKEN, BSI, Saitama, Japan
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