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 dynamics 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.
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Torres-Eliard, K., Labbé, C., Grandjean, D. (2012). Towards a Dynamic Approach to the Study of Emotions Expressed by Music. In: Camurri, A., Costa, C. (eds) Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment. INTETAIN 2011. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 78. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30214-5_34
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