Research Article
Towards a Dynamic Approach to the Study of Emotions Expressed by Music
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-30214-5_34, author={Kim Torres-Eliard and Carolina Labb\^{e} and Didier Grandjean}, title={Towards a Dynamic Approach to the Study of Emotions Expressed by Music}, proceedings={Workshop on Social Behavior in Music}, proceedings_a={SBM}, year={2012}, month={10}, keywords={Emotion music dynamic judgment musical expressiveness}, doi={10.1007/978-3-642-30214-5_34} }- Kim Torres-Eliard
Carolina Labbé
Didier Grandjean
Year: 2012
Towards a Dynamic Approach to the Study of Emotions Expressed by Music
SBM
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-30214-5_34
Abstract
The emotions expressed through music have often been investigated by asking listeners to fill questionnaires at the end of a given musical performance or an excerpt; only few studies have been dedicated to the understanding of the of emotions expressed by music in laboratory or in social contexts. Based on a specific model of emotions related to music, the Geneva Emotion Music Scale (GEMS), we tested to what extent such dynamic judgments are reliable and might be a promising avenue to better understand how listeners are able to attribute different kinds of emotions expressed through music and how the social contexts might influence such judgments. The results indicate a high reliability between listeners for different musical excerpts and for different contexts of listening including concerts, i.e. a social context, and laboratory experiments.