Cognitive approaches offer clear links between how emotions are thought about in everyday
life and how they are investigated psychologically. Cognitive researchers have focused on …

In Western tonal music, major and minor modes are recognized as the primary musical
features in eliciting emotional responses. The underlying correlates of this dichotomy in …

In all of the books about rock music, relatively few focus on the purely musical dimensions of
the style: dimensions of harmony and melody, tonality and scale, rhythm and meter, phrase …

We present a corpus of harmonic analyses and melodic transcriptions of rock songs. After
explaining the creation and notation of the corpus, we present results of some explorations …

Music is a vital part of most cultures and has a strong impact on emotions [–]. In Western
cultures, emotive valence is strongly influenced by major and minor melodies and harmony …

The association between major/minor tonality and positive/negative emotional valence is
psychologically robust, but without a single accepted explanation. I compare six partially …

This study investigates the role of extrinsic and intrinsic predictors in the perception of affect
in mostly unfamiliar musical chords from the Bohlen-Pierce microtonal tuning system …

The perception of consonance/dissonance of musical harmonies is strongly correlated with
their periodicity. This is shown in this article by consistently applying recent results from …

Harmonic cadences are chord progressions that play an important structural role in Western
classical music–they demarcate musical phrases and contribute to the tonality. This study …

The connection between emotion and music runs deep, and despite a growing body of
research, the influence of musical structure on emotion perception is only partially …