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Building the Anticipation: How Variation in Tension Mediates Emotions in Music

Amelia S. Turrell, Andrea R. Halpern, Katy Bannister, Dawn Chai-Wi-Ting, Amir-Homayoun Javadi
Journal: Music Perception
Music Perception (2024) 42 (3): 256–268.
https://doi.org/10.1525/mp.2024.aa004
Published: 19 December 2024
...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...
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Wait For It: An EEG Exploration Of Excitement In Dance Music

Amelia S. Turrell, Andrea R. Halpern, Amir-Homayoun Javadi
Journal: Music Perception
Music Perception (2021) 38 (4): 345–359.
https://doi.org/10.1525/mp.2021.38.4.345
Published: 01 April 2021
...) 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...
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