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An Investigation of Emotional Response to Music and Text

Kate Gfeller

School of Music, The University of lowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA

Edward Asmus

Department of Music, 204 Gardner Hall, University of Ultah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, USA

Michael Eckert

School of Music, The Universitv of lowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA

The purpose of this study was to compare the effects of musical and textual settings (text alone, commercial-type background music, commeicial-type background music with text, atonal music, atonal music with text) o1n affective response and mood of naive listeners. Non-musicians (N 1= U) enrolled in a large university were randomly assigned to one of the fivc experimental conditions. Affective response was measured bh semantic differential scales and the 9-Affective Di,ue,isiouz. Subjects were also asked to indicate mood prior to and following the experimental task. Analyses revealed significant differences across the five experimental conditions ftlo affective response and a significant differences in mood from preto posttesting. Further examination of the activity and evaluation semantic diffcrential scales indicated that the relationship of evaluation to activitv followed the curvilinear (U-shaped) relationship reported in many expei-imental aesthetics studies.

Psychology of Music, Vol. 19, No. 2, 128-141 (1991)
DOI: 10.1177/0305735691192004
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