How music creates emotion

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The Emotional Power of Music: Multidisciplinary

perspectives on musical arousal, expression, and
social control
Tom Cochrane, Bernardino Fantini, and Klaus R. Scherer

Print publication date: 2013

Print ISBN-13: 9780199654888
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2013
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199654888.001.0001

How music creates emotion

a multifactorial process approach

Klaus R. Scherer
Eduardo Coutinho

DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199654888.003.0010

In this chapter we propose an integrated framework that links

the perception and cognition of music to the production of
emotion by means of psychobiological pathways recruiting
various subsystems of the central and autonomous nervous
systems. These pathways (which we call routes) are Appraisal,
Memory, Entrainment, Empathy, and Contagion, and they
permit to describe the nature and substrate of a wide variety
of emotional responses to music. We focus on music
characteristics, more precisely the musical structure and
performance variables, as the determinant factors of
emotional indication, while considering a variety of possible
modulatory effects related to listener characteristics and
states, the performer, and the listening context.

Keywords: Music, Emotion induction, Routes, Appraisal, Memory, Entrainment,

Empathy, Contagion

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