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The Feeling of Musical Mode and its Emotional Character in a Melody

Faculty of International Cultural Studies, University of Ueno-Gakuen, 2-3-1 Sohka, Saitama, Japan.

The present investigation, conducted on music students and non-music students as well as middle-aged subjects, had two aims. The first was to try to discover, through a synaesthetic bias, whether there is a difference in emotional reactions to the many musical modes in existence in Japan. The second was to make a comparison between age groups of the way in which melodies which differ only in one aspect, namely musical mode, are heard. The results show that (1) each mode produced a different impression, according to melodic type, on the listeners, but (2) there were additional differences in the emotional modal characters according to age group and to whether the listeners were musicians or non-musicians.

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