Empirical Musicology Review  

Daniel Müllensiefen,Daniel Shanahan

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Mari Romarheim Haugen

The pulse level in music is often described as a series of isochronous beats that provides an underlying reference structure against which we perceive rhythmic patterns. This notion is challenged by music styles that seem to feature an underlying referenc... see more

Muriel Swijghuisen Reigersberg

This study investigates periodic body motion (foot-tapping and vertical hip motions) as a reference structure in a specific style of traditional Norwegian dance music called telespringar. The intimate relationship between music and motion is often highlig... see more

Ragnhild Torvanger Solberg,Alexander Refsum Jensenius

How do dancers engage with electronic dance music (EDM) when dancing? This paper reports on an empirical study of dancers' pleasurable engagement with three structural properties of EDM: (1) breakdown, (2) build-up, and (3) drop. Sixteen participants danc... see more

Alinka E. Greasley

The motion capture study conducted by Solberg and Jensenius 2016 explores how people's movement on a dance floor is shaped by structural features of electronic dance music (EDM), with a particular focus on the breakdown and drop sections of tracks, the fo... see more

Maria A. G. Witek,Peter Vuust

In the paper 'Pleasurable and Intersubjective Embodied Experiences of Electronic Dance Music', Ragnhild Torvanger Solberg and Alexander Refsum Jensenius report on a study in which the movements and self-reported affective responses of a group of dancing p... see more

Emery Schubert,Adrian C. North,David J. Hargreaves

A framework for organizing the semantic structure of aesthetic experience is proposed.  The new framework is presented in an 'affect-space' and consists of three sets of dichotomous classifications: (1) internal locus (the felt experience) versus external... see more

Melanie Wald-Fuhrmann

This commentary critically evaluates the target paper by Schubert, North and Hargreaves on the semantic structure of aesthetic experience. It places it in the context of existing research with a special emphasis on related debates in philosophy and theore... see more

Elvira Brattico

This commentary discusses the paper by Schubert and colleagues in the context of the recent proposals in the field of empirical aesthetics and neuroaesthetics, emphasizing the need for inclusion of the time variable for accounting for the dynamic nature o... see more

Eitan Ornoy

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