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A History of Emotion in Western Music
Language: en
Pages: 457
Authors: Michael Spitzer
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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"This book is the first history of musical emotion in any language. Combining intellectual history, music studies, philosophy and cognitive psychology, it unfol
A History of Emotion in Western Music
Language: en
Pages: 416
Authors: Michael Spitzer
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-09-14 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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When asked to describe what music means to them, most people talk about its power to express or elicit emotions. As a melody can produce a tear, tingle the spin
Emotion and Meaning in Music
Language: en
Pages: 328
Authors: Leonard B. Meyer
Categories: Music
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"Altogether it is a book that should be required reading for any student of music, be he composer, performer, or theorist. It clears the air of many confused no
Representing Emotions
Language: en
Pages: 256
Authors: Helen Hills
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-05-15 - Publisher: Routledge

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Juxtaposing artistic and musical representations of the emotions with medical, philosophical and scientific texts in Western culture between the Renaissance and
Handbook of Music and Emotion
Language: en
Pages: 992
Authors: Patrik N. Juslin
Categories: Psychology
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Music's ability to express and arouse emotions is a mystery that has fascinated both experts and laymen at least since ancient Greece. The predecessor to this b