A history of emotion in Western music : a thousand years from chant to pop / Michael Spitzer.

• This text provides a history of musical emotion. Combining intellectual history, music studies, philosophy, and cognitive psychology, it unfolds a history of musical emotion across a thousand years of Western art music, from chant to pop. It affords a new way of analyzing music, revealing the relationship between emotion and musical structure. The work also provides an introduction to the latest approaches to emotion research, as well as an original theory of how musical emotion works. 

Ämnesord

Emotions in music  -- History. (LCSH)

Music  -- Psychological aspects. (LCSH)

Målgrupp

Specialized.

Klassifikation

ML3830 (LCC)

780.0152 (DDC)