Songs and emotions: are lyrics and melodies equal partners?

Ali, Omar; Peyni̇rci̇oğlu, Zehra F.

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“…It is also worth noting that the content of lyrics may have contributed to the induced emotional states, as 91.5% of the self-selected sad music contained lyrics. This possibility is rendered probable by the findings of previous studies (e.g., Ali & Peynircioylu, 2006;Brattico et al, 2011) that suggest lyrics may be important for musicinduced sadness. However, there may be other mechanisms as well-such as emotional contagion-that contribute to sadness induced by personally relevant, familiar music, since Fantasy-the tendency to imaginatively transpose oneself into the feelings and actions of fictitious characters (Davis, 1980) -was related to higher mean sadness ratings also in Condition 3.…”

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Can sad music really make you sad? Indirect measures of affective states induced by music and autobiographical memories.

Vuoskoski¹,

Eerola²

2012

Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts

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The present study addressed music's disputed ability to induce genuine sadness in listeners by investigating whether listening to sad music can induce sadness-related effects on memory and judgment. Related aims were to explore how the different mechanisms of music-induced emotions are involved in sadness induced by familiar, self-selected music and unfamiliar, experimenter-selected music, and whether the susceptibility to music-induced sadness is associated with trait empathy. One hundred twenty participants were randomly assigned into four conditions with different tasks: listening to unfamiliar sad or neutral music, or to self-selected sad music, or recalling a sad autobiographical event and writing about it. The induced affective states were measured indirectly using a word recall task and a judgment task where participants rated the emotions expressed by pictures depicting facial expressions. The results indicate that listening to sad music can indeed induce changes in emotion-related memory and judgment. However, this effect depends, to some extent, on the music's relevance to the listener, as well as on the personality attributes of the listener. Trait empathy contributed to the susceptibility to sadness induced by unfamiliar music, while autobiographical memories contributed to sadness induced by self-selected music.

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Can sad music really make you sad? Indirect measures of affective states induced by music and autobiographical memories.

Vuoskoski¹,

Eerola²

2012

Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts

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176

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“…One possible reason for the considerably low success rate of both the pop music sets (P1 and P2) could be the effect of lyrics. Even though Ali and Peynircio glu (2006) demonstrated that musical features have usually more emotional significance than lyrics, nearly all the excerpts in these two Fig. 2.…”

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Are the Emotions Expressed in Music Genre-specific? An Audio-based Evaluation of Datasets Spanning Classical, Film, Pop and Mixed Genres

Eerola

2011

Journal of New Music Research

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Empirical studies of emotions in music have described the role of individual musical features in recognizing particular emotions. However, no attempts have been made as yet to establish if there is a link between particular emotions and a specific genre. Here this is investigated by analysing nine separate datasets that represent categories ranging from classical (three sets), and film music (two), to popular music (two), and mixed genre (two). A total of 39 musical features were extracted from the audio. Models were then constructed from these to explain self-reports of valence and arousal, by using multiple and Random Forest regression. The models were fully validated across the datasets, suggesting low generalizability between the genres for valence (16% variance was accounted for) and moderately good generalizability between the genres for arousal (43%). In contrast, the generalizability within genres was considerably higher (43% and 62% respectively), which suggests that emotions, especially those that express valence, operate differently depending on the musical genre. The most reliable musical features of affects across genres were identified, yielding a ranked set of features most likely to operate across the genre. In conclusion, the implications of the findings, and the genre-specificity of emotions in music are discussed.

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“…As a result, the lyrics themselves, independently of music, may have led pupils to more clearly perceive Cape Verdeans as having similar values to their own, which may have positively affected their attitudes. What if the lyrics had expressed messages that were at odds with pupils' values (Ali & Peynircioğlu, 2006)?…”

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Can music reduce anti-dark-skin prejudice? A test of a cross-cultural musical education programme

Neto

Pinto

Mullet³

2015

Psychology of Music

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The study examined the impact of a cross-cultural musical programme on young Portuguese adolescents' anti-dark-skin prejudice. A sample of 229 sixth-grade pupils who attended public schools in the area of Lisbon, Portugal, were presented with the Implicit Association Test (IAT) -an instrument that measures the strength with which dark-skinned faces or light-skinned faces are associated with attributes that can be considered as negative or positive, and with a test measuring explicit anti-dark-skin prejudice. Half of the pupils were subsequently exposed, at school, to a 6-month musical programme that included Cape Verdean songs and Portuguese songs. The other half was exposed to the usual programme. Measures taken at the end of the programmes showed a reduction in anti-dark-skin prejudice, either implicit or explicit, among pupils in the experimental group and no reduction among pupils in the control group. Measures taken 3 months later and 2 years later showed that the impact of the experimental programme was enduring.

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Songs and emotions: are lyrics and melodies equal partners?

Cited by 134 publications

References 48 publications

Can sad music really make you sad? Indirect measures of affective states induced by music and autobiographical memories.

Can sad music really make you sad? Indirect measures of affective states induced by music and autobiographical memories.

Are the Emotions Expressed in Music Genre-specific? An Audio-based Evaluation of Datasets Spanning Classical, Film, Pop and Mixed Genres

Can music reduce anti-dark-skin prejudice? A test of a cross-cultural musical education programme

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