Commentary on "The Happy Xylophone: Acoustics Affordances Restrict An Emotional Palate" by Michael Schutz, David Huron, Kristopher Keeton, & Greg Loewer
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2008-07
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Empirical Musicology Review
Abstract
In this commentary, I raise several issues of method and presentation
and suggest a number of follow-up experiments associated with some of these
issues. Broad suggestions are also made (or rather preached): the need to deal
empirically with musical emotions subtler than the oft-investigated basic emotions,
and the role that interactions between musical variables may play in shaping subtle
musical expression, as exemplified by some well-known xylophone soli from the orchestral repertory.
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Timbre, Acoustic, Valence, Affect, Xylophone
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Empirical Musicology Review, v3 n3 (July 2008), 136-139