The emotional power of music : multidisciplinary perspectives on musical arousal, expression, and social control / edited by Tom Cochrane, Bernardino Fantini, Klaus R. Scherer.

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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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Contributors; Introduction; Section 1 Musical expressiveness; 1 Section introduction; 2 Sad flowers: analyzing affective trajectory in Schubert's "Trockne Blumen"; 3 Composing the expressive qualities of music; 4 The emotional power of musical performance; 5 The singer's paradox: on authenticity in emotional expression on the opera stage; 6 On the resistance of the instrument; 7 Gender ambivalence and the expression of passions in the performances of early Roman cantatas by castrati and female singers; 8 The ethos of modes during the Renaissance

Section 2 Emotion elicitation9 Section introduction; 10 How music creates emotion: a multifactorial process approach; 11 "Mors stupebit": multiple levels of fear-arousing mechanisms in Verdi's Messa da Requiem; 12 Three theories of emotion-three routes for musical arousal; 13 Music-to-listener emotional contagion; 14 Empathy, enaction, and shared musical experience: evidence from infant cognition; 15 Music, action, and affect; 16 Rhythmic entrainment as a mechanism for emotion induction by music: a neurophysiological perspective

17 Striking a chord in the brain: neurophysiological correlates of music-evoked positive emotionsSection 3 The powers of music; 18 Section introduction; 19 Forms of thought between music and science; 20 Control and the science of affect: music and power in the medieval and Renaissance periods; 21 The psychotropic power of music during the Renaissance; 22 Music as a means of social control: some examples of practice and theory in early modern Europe; 23 The tradition of ancient music therapy in the 18th century; 24 On nostalgia

25 Emotions, identity, and copyright control: the constitutive role of affect attunement and its implications for the ontology of musicCoda; Appendix to "Gender ambivalence and the expression of passions" by Christine Jeanneret; Index

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