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http://dx.doi.org/10.21187/jmhb.2022.19.1.093

A Study on the Listener's Emotional Perception of Music According to Harmonic Progression Level  

Ryu, Hae In (Sharjah City for Humanitarian Services)
Choi, Jin Hee (Ewha Music Wellness Research Center)
Chong, Hyun Ju (Department of Music Therapy, Graduate School, Ewha Womans University)
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Journal of Music and Human Behavior / v.19, no.1, 2022 , pp. 93-112 More about this Journal
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to compare participants' perceived emotion following harmonic changes in music. In this study, 144 participants, aged 19 to 29 years, listened to music online that included low to high harmonic progression in tonal music (major-minor). After listening to each piece of music, participants were asked to rate 4 items using a 7-point Likert scale: emotional potency, arousal, degree to which the harmony impacted the listener's emotions, and listener's preference for the music. There were significant differences between each of the four items upon the level of harmonic progression. When the participants were divided into two groups (i.e., those with a background in music and those with no background in music), there was a significant difference between the groups in terms of emotional potency, but there was no significant interaction effect. This study confirmed that various emotional responses in listeners can be induced by controlling the exogenous variables in musical excerpts. Based on this, it is expected that the harmonic progression level can be provided to the client to be used as an effective therapeutic tool in music therapy intervention.
Keywords
harmonic progression level; emotional potency; perceived emotion; harmonic perception; music listening;
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