The field of music and emotion research has grown rapidly and diversified during the last
decade. This has led to a certain degree of confusion and inconsistency between competing …

The design of meaningful audio features is a key need to advance the state-of-the-art in
music emotion recognition (MER). This article presents a survey on the existing emotionally …

Since communication and expression are central aspects of music performance it is
important to develop a systematic pedagogy of teaching children and teenagers …

Numerous studies have investigated whether music can reliably convey emotions to
listeners, and—if so—what musical parameters might carry this information. Far less …

Music researchers frequently regard music in terms of works, and regard these works in
terms of scores. Yet in an important sense, music exists only in the moment of its …

In Psychology of Music: From Sound to Significance (2nd edition), the authors consider
music on a broad scale, from its beginning as an acoustical signal to its different …

Music in the Human Experience: An Introduction to Music Psychology, Second Edition, is
geared toward music students yet incorporates other disciplines to provide an explanation …

This study investigated cognitive and emotional effects of syncopation, a feature of musical
rhythm that produces expectancy violations in the listener by emphasising weak temporal …

This article presents findings from an action research project that investigated instrumental
teachers' strategies for facilitating children's learning of expressive music performance. Nine …

In this investigation, eight highly-trained musicians communicated emotions through
composition, performance expression, or the combination of the two. In the performance …