Putting Musical Feelings Into Words: Children's Verbal Descriptions of Music-Evoked Experiences
Caroline Owen,
Hauke Egermann,
Andrea Schiavio
Abstract:There is limited empirical research devoted to exploring children's subjective responses to music, despite extensive examination in the literature of their ability to recognize emotions said to be expressed by music. To address this gap, we recruited 26 participants aged between 5 and 11 years with the aim of learning more about their capacity to report on their music-evoked experiences, and to test the suitability of a categorical measurement scale as an age-appropriate self-report format. Participants were i… Show more
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