Part I: Introduction
1: Setting the Stage: Overture in C Major
2: The Book's Composition: Aim and Structure
3: The Value of a Psychological Approach
4: Music, Experience, and Affect
Part II: Expression and Perception of Emotion
5: What Is Meant by Emotional Expression?
6: Empirical Studies: What Have We Learned?
7: Music as Expression: Objections and Obstacles
8: Breaking the Code: The Musical Features
9: How Are Music and Emotion Links Studied?
10: Viewing Music Through a Brunswikian Lens
11: The Voice of Angels? Iconic Expression
12: Further Layers: Intrinsic and Associative Expression
13: Deviation From the Exact: The Role of the Performer
Part III: Arousal of Emotion
14: Beyond Perception: When Music Moves Us
15: Does Music Arouse Emotions? How Do We Know?
16: The Prevalence of Emotional Reactions
17: How Does Music Arouse Emotions?
18: Jumping at Shadows: Brain Stem Reflex
19: Get Into the Groove: Rhythmic Entrainment
20: Mirroring the Expression: Contagion
21: Ring My Bell: Evaluative Conditioning
22: Blast From the Past: Episodic Memory
23: Seeing in the Mind's Eye: Visual Imagery
24: What Comes Next? Musical Expectancy
25: Predictions, Implications, Complications
Part IV: Aesthetic Judgment
26: Aesthetics: The Hard Problem?
27: Traditional Approaches to Aesthetics
28: What's Special? Adopting the Aesthetic Attitude
29: Aesthetic Criteria: Meet the Usual Suspects!
30: A Novel Approach Towards Aesthetic Judgment
31: Aesthetics and Affect in Broader Perspective
32: The Last Chorus: Putting It All Together
33: Coda: Final Outlook
Appendix: The Lens Model Equation
2019 Choice Outstanding Academic Title
Patrik N. Juslin is Professor of Psychology at Uppsala University
in Sweden, where he directs their research and teaching in music
psychology. His work focuses on the perception and experience of
sound in music and speech, particularly in relation to emotion,
also covering areas such as music education, health, music
performance, and aesthetics. Juslin co-edited the Handbook of Music
and Emotion (2010) together with John Sloboda, and has also
previously worked
semi-professionally as a guitar player.
`Musical Emotions Explained is a magnificent publication that has
been painstakingly researched to illuminate the many, varied ways
music can express and arouse emotions. It provides the most
authoritative single authored text on the topic so far. As a highly
readable and informative publication, it superbly unlocks the
secrets of musical affect for experienced researchers through to
lay readers alike.
'
Gary E. McPherson, Ormond Chair of Music and Director, Melbourne
Conservatorium of Music, Australia
`Anyone who wants to understand more about the most essential
quality of music - its ability to move us - needs to read this
book. Juslin's writing is gripping and thoughtful as he takes us on
a journey through the latest research on this most interesting
intersection between science and art.
'
Daniel J. Levitin, Author of This Is Your Brain on Music and The
World in Six Songs.
`Music Emotions Explained is a tour de force. In this extraordinary
book, written with passion and humor, Patrik Juslin shares insights
gleaned from decades of ground-breaking research. Breadth and depth
are nicely balanced as grand, over-arching themes are richly
supported by systematic and detailed research findings. This book
will serve as an inviting introduction to students or interested
laypersons but also as a touchstone to which professionals will
return frequently for guidance and inspiration."'
Donald A. Hodges, Professor Emeritus, University of North Carolina
at Greensboro, USA
`Patrik Juslin here deftly synthesizes several decades of
psychological research, much of it his own, on how music both
expresses emotion and moves us emotionally, in the course of
developing an empirically grounded, evolutionarily based,
philosophically informed theory of the phenomenon in question,
doing so with style and wit. Musical Emotion Explained is wide
ranging, engagingly written, full of arresting claims, and studded
with telling anecdotes. It is
a book that everyone who has ever marveled at the affective power
of music should read."
'
Jerrold Levinson, Distinguished University Professor, Department of
Philosophy, University of Maryland, USA
`Musical Emotions Explained is essential reading that sets the new
gold standard resource for understanding the delicious pleasures of
music experience. Using lucid, witty and compelling arguments,
Patrik Juslin illustrates a set of core mechanisms that
collectively account for music-evoked emotions. Scholars, general
readers and musicians will be inspired by this landmark work, which
will stimulate research for decades to come.
'
Bill Thompson, Distinguished Professor, Macquarie University,
Sydney, Australia
`It goes without saying that Patrik Juslin is one of the world's
top experts on the science of musical emotion. What this book
reveals is that he is a hugely persuasive and accessible
interlocutor. It really feels as though one is in conversation with
a friend who is thinking issues and arguments through with the
reader, step by step. Of course all the important literature is
covered, but this is far from a dry literature review. Juslin's
book should excite
and stimulate layreaders and professional colleagues alike to
deepen their understanding of what makes music emotional.
'
John Sloboda, Research Professor, Guildhall School of Music &
Drama, London, UK
`The best comprehensive and critically explanatory tome to-date on
one of the most fascinating and still poorly understood topics in
music research, written by the foremost international expert on
music and emotion. A treasure for decades to come.
'
Michael Thaut, Professor of Music, Neuroscience and Rehabilitation
Science, University of Toronto, Canada
`In Musical Emotions Explained, Patrik Juslin probes and proffers
many psychological and philosophical concepts of musical emotions
toward unpacking numerous mysteries surrounding the arousal and
expression of musical affect. The results of his meticulous
research have profound implications for experiencing, creating,
valuing, and teaching music. Written with great care and passion,
this brilliant book is a must-read for anyone who takes a serious
interest
in the nature and values of music in people's lives.
'
David Elliott, Professor of Music and Music Education, New York
University, USA
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