The Emotional Power of Music

by Kristen Jafflin, Tom Cochrane, Bernardino Fantini, et al.

How can an abstract sequence of sounds so intensely express emotional states? How does music elicit or arouse our emotions? What happens at the physiological and neural level when we listen to music? How do composers and performers practically manage the expressive powers of music? How have societies sought to harness the powers of music for social or therapeutic purposes?

In the past ten years, research into the topic of music and emotion...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199654883
• ISBN13: 9780199654888
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.7" x 9.7"