Analysis of Emotional Dimensions in Music Using Time Series Techniques
Emery Schubert · Context · 2006
The approach of modelling emotion as a continuous, statistical function of musical parameters in some ways harks back to the idea that music can be codified to have quite specific emotional meanings: a revisitation of the so called doctrine of the affections, perhaps. So within the tradition of trying to explain emotion in music, It is argued that the statistical modelling of memory is a significant step forward in understanding aesthetic responses to music. While matters of culture, individual differences and the present state of the listener are factors which are sometimes ignored in music perception research but considered more by social scientists and cultural studies researchers, the essential contribution of memory in emotional response to music seems to have been ignored by most disciplines, particularly in terms of quantification.