...Amelia S. Turrell; Andrea R. Halpern; Katy Bannister; Dawn Chai-Wi-Ting; Amir-Homayoun Javadi Previous research on music-evoked emotions has suggested that people experience heightened tension around expected musical events, which mediates peak-pleasurable emotions. Electronic dance music (EDM...

..., frequency of attending classical music concerts, expectancy, and authenticity. The interviews addressed relevant issues, such as differences in ensemble and instrumental practices, timbral quality, and the capabilities of DMI mobile apps. While there were negative perceptions regarding expressive body...

...) are emotive but short music moments containing three passages: breakdown, build-up, and drop. Within build-ups music features increase to peak moments prior to highly expected drop passages and peak-pleasurable emotions when these expectations are fulfilled. The neural correlates of peak-pleasurable emotions...

... highlights that it is a process involving carefully sequenced changes that are experienced as musical peaks. From the perspective of expectancy theories, the EDM break routine sets up, delays, and gratifies expectations for continuation, and so it is possible to theorize that this will elicit pleasurable...

... expectancy (Narmour, 1990, 1992, 2000). Two measures of melodic processing difficulty were used to assess the influence of emergent-level structure: serial-reconstruction and cohesion ratings. In the serial-reconstruction experiment (Experiment 1), reconstruction was more efficient for melodies with simple...