Music therapy is increasingly being used as an intervention for stress reduction in both
medical and mental healthcare settings. Music therapy is characterized by personally …

Music interventions are used for stress reduction in a variety of settings because of the
positive effects of music listening on both physiological arousal (eg, heart rate, blood …

The RAVDESS is a validated multimodal database of emotional speech and song. The
database is gender balanced consisting of 24 professional actors, vocalizing lexically …

The sound of music may arouse profound emotions in listeners. But such experiences seem
to involve a 'paradox', namely that music–an abstract form of art, which appears removed …

Why do people listen to music? Over the past several decades, scholars have proposed
numerous functions that listening to music might fulfill. However, different theoretical …

What is the nature of the feelings evoked by music? We investigated how people represent
the subjective experiences associated with Western and Chinese music and the form in …

Music's ability to express and arouse emotions is a mystery that has fascinated both experts
and laymen at least since ancient Greece. The predecessor to this book'Music and …

The relation between music listening and stress is inconsistently reported across studies,
with the major part of studies being set in experimental settings. Furthermore, the …

Research indicates that people value music primarily because of the emotions it evokes.
Yet, the notion of musical emotions remains controversial, and researchers have so far been …

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 …