What Is Sad Music?

Garrido, Sandra

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“…Emotionally congruent lyrics thus intensify sad music, while the opposite is true for happy music. This intensification may partly explain the attraction most people have for sad music for mood-regulatory purposes (e.g., Garrido, 2017; Van den Tol & Edwards, 2013; Van den Tol, 2016). Individuals apply mood regulation techniques to improve their moods.…”

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Music and Lyric Characteristics of Popular Dutch Funeral Songs

2022

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This study compared the characteristics of 150 songs (Dutch lyrics, N = 47, English lyrics, N = 103), popular at Dutch funerals, to an equal number of non-funeral songs. The variables explored included those linked with the music (valence, energy, danceability, acousticness, key, and tempo); and lyrics, namely: linguistics-related (first-person singular/plural, second-person pronouns; past, present, future tense; expressed emotion (positive, negative words, and the discrete emotional categories anger, anxiety, sadness); and category words (those relating to family, friends, death, religion). Funeral music was lower in valence, energy, and danceability and higher in acousticness than non-funeral music. Furthermore, English funeral music lyrics contained more second-person pronouns and were more future-focused than comparison songs. Funeral lyrics were not particularly negative, but English texts contained more words relating to sadness. In conclusion, funeral music differs in severable notable respects from general popular songs that may reflect the special purpose of this music.

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“…More precisely, sad songs contained more negatively valenced words, particularly expressions of sadness and anger, while happy songs included more positively valenced words. Further, happy songs had more words in the present tense than sad songs (Garrido, 2017, p. 24–25).…”

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Music and Lyric Characteristics of Popular Dutch Funeral Songs

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“…A particularly intriguing question is why some people are attracted to music that evokes negative emotions (Garrido, 2016; Garrido & Schubert, 2011b; Hunter, Schellenberg, & Schimmack, 2010; Huron, 2011; Kawakami, Furukawa, Katahira, & Okanoya, 2013; Mori & Iwanaga, 2014; Schellenberg, Peretz, & Vieillard, 2008; Smuts, 2011; Vuoskoski & Eerola, 2012; Vuoskoski, Thompson, McIlwain, & Eerola, 2012). Over three studies Schubert (2007, 2010, 2013) found that approximately one third of participants preferred music that evoked negative emotions.…”

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“…On the other hand, Garrido drew attention to maladaptive attraction to negative emotion in music: Participants with a high propensity to ruminate, that is, to have involuntary, repetitive negative thoughts, appear to listen to music evoking negative emotion to maintain negative mood (Garrido, 2009, 2016; Garrido & Schubert, 2011b, 2013, 2015; Garrido, Schubert, & Bangert, 2016). Whether this is a kind of pleasure or not is a moot point, but the evidence has suggested that people who exhibit high levels of rumination do not enjoy the experience (see, e.g., Garrido & Schubert, 2011a, 2013, 2015; Mayes, Humphrey, Handford, & Mitchell, 1988; Wilhelm, Gillis, Schubert, & Whittle, 2013).…”

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“…The implication is that these two traits (absorption and rumination) may exclusively account for attraction to music. A subsequent study did find that rumination was mediated by absorption (Garrido & Schubert, 2015), and according to Garrido (2016, p. 139), rumination is understood to be a form of “self-absorption” in which people become absorbed in self-negative thoughts. But the findings have yet to be replicated.…”

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Attraction to sad music: The role of imagery, absorption, and rumination.

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Kreutz³

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Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts

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Previous studies have identified links between attraction to negative emotion in music with the traits of absorption and rumination. However, no studies have examined the possible interdependencies and influences of these traits. We sought to determine whether a cognitive processing path that leads to attraction to sad music could be identified. We argued that auditory imagery might be an interesting competency to add to the investigation because of the links between imagery and absorption. Participants completed validated surveys measuring the three target cognitive measures, as well as a Like Sad Music Scale. Mediation analysis revealed that absorption mediated imagery in response to sad music, as predicted, and rumination predicted attraction to sad music independently of the other traits. Suggestions for expanding the cognitive process path are proposed, including further investigation of the possible central role of absorption.

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What Is Sad Music?

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Music and Lyric Characteristics of Popular Dutch Funeral Songs

Music and Lyric Characteristics of Popular Dutch Funeral Songs

Attraction to sad music: The role of imagery, absorption, and rumination.

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