Pitch height and mode have asymmetrical effects on the perception of mixed emotions in seventh chords
Noah Bongiovanni,
Tsz Man Vanessa Chan,
Stephen Charles Van Hedger
et al.
Abstract:Music has long been recognized for evoking emotion from the listener. While prior empirical studies have investigated the effect of various auditory features (i.e., timbre, tempo, articulation) on emotion perception, the relationship between mode and emotion in chords, beyond basic associations of “major”-”happy” and “minor”-”sad” in triads, remains poorly understood. The present study investigates how mode contributes to the perception of mixed emotions in major and minor seventh chords, containing a triad fr… Show more
Set email alert for when this publication receives citations?
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.