Emotion and Understanding in Music

Table of Contents

• Title Page
• Abstract
• Leonard Meyer: An Appreciation
• Meaning and Understanding
• Six Classes of Affective Responses
• Classes of Affective Responses
• Classes of Affective Responses
• Footsteps & Sex Identification
• Footsteps (continued)
• Pitch Height, Aggressivity & Politeness
• The Big and the Bad
• Problem of Musical Similarity
• Auditory Cuteness
• Chimeric Melody
• Beethoven Misquotation
• Beethoven Misquotation
• Violating Expectations
• Laughter & Probability
• A Closer Look at Surprise
• Neurophysiology of Surprise
• What are Ears For?
  
  
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