Cochrane, Tom - The Emotional Power of Music

How can an abstract sequence of sounds so intensely express emotional states? In the past ten years, research into the topic of music and emotion has flourished. This book explores the relationship between music and emotion, bringing together contributions from psychologists, neuroscientists, musicologists, musicians, and philosophers

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CONTENTS

List of Contributors
Introduction to the volume
Section I: Musical Expressiveness
1 Tom Cochrane: Section Introduction
2 Michael Spitzer: Sad Flowers: Analysing affective trajectory in Schubert's Trockne Blumen
3 Tom Cochrane: Composing the expressive qualities of music: Interviews with Jean-Claude Risset, Carter Burwell & Brian Ferneyhough
4 Daniel Leech-Wilkinson: The emotional power of musical performance
5 Klaus R. Scherer: The singer's paradox: On authenticity in emotional expression on the opera stage Interviews with Thomas Moser, Lucy Schaufer, Gillian Keith, Bruno Taddia & Christoph Pregardien
6 Tom Cochrane: On the resistance of the instrument
7 Christine Jeanneret: Gender Ambivalence and the Expression of Passions in the Performances of Early Roman Cantatas by Castrati and Female Singers
8 Claude Palisca (translated by Kirsten Jafflin): The ethos of modes during the Renaissance
Section II: Emotion Elicitation
9 Klaus R. Scherer: Section Introduction
10 Klaus R. Scherer & Eduardo Coutinho: How music creates emotion: A multifactorial process approach
11 Luca Zoppelli: Mors stupebit: multiple levels of fear-arousing mechanisms in Verdi's Messa da Requiem
12 Jenefer Robinson: Three theories of emotion - three routes for musical arousal
13 Stephen Davies: Music-to-listener emotional contagion
14 Joel Krueger: Empathy, enaction and shared musical experience: Evidence from infant cognition
15 Lincoln John Colling & William Forde Thompson: Music, action, and affect
16 Wiebke Trost & Patrik Vuilleumier: Rhythmic entertainment as a mechanism for emotion induction and contagion by music: A neurophysiological perspective
17 Stefan Koelsch: Striking a chord in the brain: Neurophysiological correlates of music-evoked positive emotions
Section III: The Powers of Music
18 Bernardino Fantini: Section Introduction
19 Bernardino Fantini (translated by Kirsten Jafflin): Forms of thought between music and science
20 Laurence Wuidar (translated by Kirsten Jafflin): Control and the science of affect: Music and power in the Medieval and Rennaisance periods
21 Brenno Boccadoro (translated by Kirsten Jafflin): The psychotropic power of music during the Renaissance
22 Penelope Gouk: Music as a means of social control: some examples of practice and theory in early modern Europe
23 Jackie Pigeaud (translated by Kirsten Jafflin): The tradition of ancient music therapy in the 18th century
24 Jean Starobinski (translated by Kirsten Jafflin): On nostalgia
25 Ulrik Volgsten: Emotions, identity and copyright control: The constitutive role of affect attunement and its implications for the ontology of music
Coda

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