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Emotional Experiences of Ascending Melodic Lines

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Music has the ability to cause intense emotional experiences with perceptible physical reactions as their outcome [1–3]. “Chills” or “goose bumps” have been found to be reliable indicators of emotional peaks in music listening through the combination of self-reporting methods and the concrete measurements of physical reactions [4–6]. In this way it is possible to identify musical passages that are especially effective at producing emotional peak experiences [5]. These experiences can be evoked in many ways and are often connected to music on a highly subjective level [7]. Nevertheless, large groups of listeners often seem to agree on the effectiveness of certain music and even specific passages in this regard [5, 6, 8].

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Zeiner-Henriksen, H.T. (2016). Emotional Experiences of Ascending Melodic Lines. In: Kronland-Martinet, R., Aramaki, M., Ystad, S. (eds) Music, Mind, and Embodiment. CMMR 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9617. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46282-0_24

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