Coutinho, E

Scherer, KR

Coutinho, Eduardo

Scherer, Klaus R.

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Emotions induced by music: The role of the listening context and modality of presentation

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Emotions induced by music: The role of the listening context and modality ofpresentationEduardo Coutinho, Klaus SchererSwiss Center for Affective Sciences, SwitzerlandScherer’s and Zentner’s (2001) identified a series of production rules that underlie the emotion in-duction through music, arguing that there is an interaction between a multitude of factors in theproduction of an emotional experience. In particular, they discuss how performance (e.g., physicalappearance, expression, interpretative skills), listener (e.g., musical expertise, personality, mood), andcontext (e.g., location and event) features can modulate such experiences.The study reported here investigates in more detail the impact of the location (contextual factor), andthe effect of seeing the performers (performance factors) on the emotional experiences of listeners.The method consisted of quantifying the emotional responses of listeners, in four different conditions,using a short version (Coutinho & Scherer, 2012) of the GEMS (Zentner, Scherer & Grandjean,2008). The first group attended to a live performance by Christophe Pergardién (tenor) and MichaelGees (pianist). A second group attended to an audiovisual recording of the same performance in aclassroom at the University of Geneva. The third and fourth groups listened the audio-only versionand saw the video of the concert (without audio), respectively.Our results show that both context and modality of presentation have a significant impact in theemotions induced in listeners, as well as in the consistency of those experiences, providing importantevidence about the modulatory role of contextual and performance factors in emotional experienceswith music. Our results have implications to the understanding of musically induced emotions as wellas for empirical methodologies in the area of music and emotion.Keywords: Performance factors, Contextual factors, Emotion, Music.

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