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Emotional Response to Music

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Pages:208
ISBN:0-7734-7439-0
978-0-7734-7439-0
Price:$179.95

Table of Contents

Foreword; Preface
1. Introduction: Factors Related to Emotional Response
2. Methods of Measuring Aesthetic Response (Hevner’s Adjective Wheel; Continuous Response Digital Interface)
3. The Elusive Nature of Aesthetic Response (Describing Music and Emotions; Music and Aesthetics; Reliability and Assessment)
4. Pat Metheny: A Brief Biography
5. Metheny’s Gradual Progression Toward a Rhetorical Style (Vocal Evolution; Elements of Rhetoric; Parallel Approaches to Musical Treatment by Leonard Ratner and Pat Metheny; Selected Rhetorical Figures)
6. Preliminary Work Using Metheny’s Music (Pilot Studies)
7. The Effect of Moodstates on Listener Responses to Metheny’s Music (Stimuli; Stimulus Tapes; Data Collection; Procedure)
8. Results (Individual Analysis of Emotional Responses; Demographic Analysis; Reliability)
9. Interpreting the Effect of Metheny’s Music
10. Final Thoughts
Appendix; Bibliography; Indices – Album, Performer, Researcher