‘The power of music’, The Psychologist, December 2009, Vol 22, No 12
Adrian C North and David J Hargreaves look at how music psychology is changing in the digital era
“Music is the shorthand of emotion”
Leo Tolstoy
References:
Riganello, F., Quinteri, M., Candelieri, A., Conforti, D., & Dolce G. (2008). Heart Rate Response to Music; An Artificial Intelligence Study on Healthy and Traumatic Brain-Injured Subjects. Federation of European Psychophysiology Societies, 22(4), 166-174.
Barrett, F, S., Grimm, K, J., Robins, R, W., Wildschut, T., Sedikides, C., & Janata, P. (2010). Music-Evoked Nostalgia: Affect, Memory, and Personality. American Psychological Association, 10, 309-403.
Schubert, E. (2010). Affective, Evaluative, and Collative Responses to Hated and Loved Music. Psychology of Aesthetics, creativity, and the Arts, 4, 36-46.
Gomez, P., & Danuser, B. (2007). Relationships Between Musical Structure and Psychophysiological Measures of Emotion. American Psychological Association, 7, 377-387.
Ready, T., (2009). Music as Language. American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, 27, 7-15
Trainor, L, J., & Schmidt, L, A., (2003) Processing Emotions Induced By Music. The cognitive neuroscience of music. 20, 310-324.
Relevant Articles
Sammler, D., Geigutsch, M., Fritz, T., & Koelsch, S. (2007) Music and Emotion: Electrophysiological correlates of the processing and unpleasant music. Society for Psychophysiological Research, 44, 293-304.
Deutsch, S. (2010) Psycho and the Orchestration of Anxiety.
Relevant Links
http://jnnp.bmj.com/content/75/2/344.full.html