Journal article
Effect of textual setting, training, and gender on emotional response to verbal and musical information
Psychomusicology, Vol.14(1-2), pp.117-136
04/01/1995
DOI: 10.1037/h0094088
Abstract
This study compared the effects of audio-taped recordings of atonal music and text (spoken text alone, text spoken over piano accompaniment, text sung with piano accompaniment, or piano accompaniment alone), musical training (music major, nonmajor), and gender on ratings of affective response, complexity, liking, and mood. Subjects (N=239, upper-division music majors and nonmajors from a large university) recorded their affective responses using semantic differential scales and E.P. Asmus's (1985) Nine Affective Dimensions. Subjects rated the text-only setting more positively than the other settings (p<.05). All conditions significantly lowered mood from pre- to post-treatment Music majors had higher potency and evaluation ratings and lower "evil" ratings. Females responded with higher "complexity" ratings and reported their feelings more intensely than males in several instances.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Effect of textual setting, training, and gender on emotional response to verbal and musical information
- Creators
- Don D. Coffman - The University of IowaKate Gfeller - University of IowaMichael Eckert - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Psychomusicology, Vol.14(1-2), pp.117-136
- Publisher
- The Florida State University
- DOI
- 10.1037/h0094088
- ISSN
- 0275-3987
- eISSN
- 2162-1535
- Number of pages
- 20
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 04/01/1995
- Academic Unit
- School of Music; Communication Sciences and Disorders; Teaching and Learning; Otolaryngology
- Record Identifier
- 9984826367002771
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