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From Mode to Emotion in Musical Communication

From Mode to Emotion in Musical Communication

Update: 2009-03-27
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From Mode to Emotion in Musical Communication: Steven Brown, Director of the NeuroArts Lab at McMaster University, discusses his work looking at the expression of emotion in both Western and non-Western musics. Music employs a number of mechanisms for conveying emotion. Some of them are shared with other modes of expression (speech, gesture) while others are specific to music. The most unique way that music communicates emotion is through the use of contrastive scale types. While Westerners are familiar with the major/minor distinction, the use of contrastive scale types in world musics is universal.

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From Mode to Emotion in Musical Communication

From Mode to Emotion in Musical Communication