...Patrik N. Juslin Emotions play a crucial role in music listening and may also have far-reaching implications for listeners’ well-being and health. However, it remains a challenge to explain how musical emotions occur. This paper offers a critical review of major theories of emotion causation...

...Christian Weining While the use of music in everyday life is much studied, the ways of listening to music during live performances have hardly been considered. To fill this gap and provide a starting point for further research, this article accomplishes two goals: First, it presents a literature...

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... reliable results were, (b) how results would change if listeners' attention changed from nondirected (NDL) to directed listening (DL), and (c) whether the perception of clash of keys is influenced by the musical style of the particular composition. Participants included 101 expert listeners and 147...