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 …

Many authors have speculated about a close relationship between vocal expression of
emotions and musical expression of emotions, but evidence bearing on this relationship has …

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 propensity to make music is the most mysterious, wonderful, and neglected feature of
humankind: this is where Steven Mithen began, drawing together strands from archaeology …

In this article, we provide an up-to-date overview of theory and research concerning
expression, perception, and induction of emotion in music. We also provide a critique of this …

The position of emotion in music has been a subject of considerable interest and debate.
However emotional aspects of music have received surprising little attention in the 45 years …

A proposal that an embodied cognition approach to music research—drawing on work in
computer science, psychology, brain science, and musicology—offers a promising …

We present MIRtoolbox, an integrated set of functions written in Matlab, dedicated to the
extraction of musical features from audio files. The design is based on a modular framework …

What is it that accounts for the differences between musical beginners, advanced music
makers, and world class performers? Virtually everyone likes music and has the capacity to …

Nine professional musicians were instructed to perform short melodies using various
instruments-the violin, electric guitar, flute, and singing voice-so as to communicate specific …