Music Communicates Affects, Not Basic Emotions – A Constructionist Account of Attribution of Emotional Meanings to Music
Basic Emotion theory has had a tremendous influence on the affective sciences, including music psychology, where most researchers have assumed that music expressivity is constrained to a limited set of basic emotions. Several scholars suggested that these constrains to musical expressivity are expla...
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Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2018-02-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Psychology |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00215/full |