...) have provided a standardized and validated research instrument for future studies, consisting of the two correlated factors Urge to Move and Pleasure. The present study reports the translation of the English version into German and a validation with a German sample ( N = 455). The original version’s...

...Olivier Senn; Toni Bechtold; Dawn Rose; Guilherme Schmidt Câmara; Nina Düvel; Rafael Jerjen; Lorenz Kilchenmann; Florian Hoesl; Antonio Baldassarre; Elena Alessandri Music often triggers a pleasurable urge in listeners to move their bodies in response to the rhythm. In music psychology...

... of the unique character of singing and an insistence on the centrality of pleasure in musical experience. music and language singing voice social processes pleasure In Act I, Scene 5 of Meredith Wilson’s The Music Man ( 1958 ), a gaggle of petty, querulous bureaucrats experiences something...

...Ragnhild Torvanger Solberg; Nicola Dibben T his paper investigates the role of musical features in shaping peak-pleasurable experiences of electronic dance music (EDM). Typically, large structural and dynamic changes occur in an EDM track, which can be referred to as the break routine , consisting...