Empirical Musicology Review  

Daniel Leech-Wilkinson,Mats B. Küssner

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Jin Hyun Kim

Over the last three decades, there has been an increasing number of empirical studies on how music conveys and induces emotional expressiveness, revolving around both the longstanding discourse over compositional and performance features related to recogn... see more

Mine Dogantan-Dack

This commentary focuses on three aspects of the experience of musical expressiveness as a dynamically emergent phenomenon: the nature of the experience itself, the nature of the dynamic forms of music, and the process of shaping music expressively in the ... see more

Uwe Seifert

The core ideas of the proposed framework for empirical aesthetics are interpreted as focusing on processes, interaction, and phenomenological experience. This commentary first touches on some methodological impediments to developing theories of processing... see more

George Athanasopoulos,Nikki Moran

In cross-cultural research involving performers from distinct cultural backgrounds (U.K., Japan, Papua New Guinea), we examined 75 musicians’ associations between musical sound and shape, and saw pronounced differences between groups. Participants he... see more

Siu-Lan Tan

Athanasopoulos and Moran (2013) examined visual representations of brief melodic sequences (solo synthesized flute playing rising, falling, peak, and valley pitch contours) by British participants familiar with western standard notation, Japanese particip... see more

Zohar Eitan

The target article illustrates deep cross-cultural gaps, involving not only the representation of musical shape but also the notion of a musical object itself.  Yet, numerous empirical findings suggest that important cross-modal correspondences invol... see more

Mine Dogantan-Dack

The last decade has witnessed an increasing interest in studying music as it relates to human evolution, leading to the establishment of so-called evolutionary musicology as a new field of enquiry. Researchers in this field maintain that music indeed play... see more

Daniel Leech-Wilkinson

The emphasis in this response to Mine Dogantan-Dack’s ‘Tonality: The Shape of Affect’ is on the cultural construction of tonality and the ways in which that may encourage Western musicians to understand tonality as a fundamental psychological process. An ... see more

Rolfe Inge Godøy

One of the main aims of Mine Dogantan-Dack’s article is to present a the­ory of the evolutionary emergence of tonality in music and its connections with affec­tive states. In the course of her article, we are presented with several fundamen­tal issues of ... see more