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From everyday emotions to aesthetic emotions: towards a unified theory of musical emotions.

Patrik N. Juslin
- 01 Sep 2013 - 
- Vol. 10, Iss: 3, pp 235-266
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An updated and expanded version of the multi-level framework that aims to explain emotional responses to music in terms of a large set of psychological mechanisms is offered, with the addition of a mechanism corresponding to aesthetic judgments of the music, to better account for typical 'appreciation emotions' such as admiration and awe.
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This article is published in Physics of Life Reviews.The article was published on 2013-09-01 and is currently open access. It has received 423 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Aesthetic emotions & Music and emotion.

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On the Enjoyment of Sad Music: Pleasurable Compassion Theory and the Role of Trait Empathy.

TL;DR: A general theory of the pleasure of tragic or sad portrayals is presented, suggesting individuals who most enjoy sad musical portrayals experience a pleasurable prosocial affect, amplified by empathetic engagement (fantasy), while experiencing only nominal levels of unpleasant emotional contagion (commiseration).
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Enjoying Sad Music: Paradox or Parallel Processes?

TL;DR: This article argues that the paradox exists because it is difficult to view the process that generates enjoyment as being part of the same system that also generates the subjective negative feeling, and that an emotion is determined by three critical processes—labeled motivational action tendency (MAT), subjective feeling (SF) and Appraisal.
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Music listening in classical concerts: Theory, literature review, and research program

TL;DR: The sociological concept of the frame is used to develop a theory of an aesthetic experience with music as the result of encountering sound/music in the context of a specific situation, by presenting a transdisciplinary sub-field of empirical (concert) studies.
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Challenges and Opportunities of Predicting Musical Emotions with Perceptual and Automatized Features

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assumed the roles of researchers without further technical MIR experience and set out to test in an exploratory way its opportunities and challenges in the specific context of musical emotion perception.
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