Talk:Music and emotion

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and in Cognitive Psychology Class Page are reworking this page about music and emotion that will link to the original music psychology page. The current Music Psychology page does not completely cover this issue and the current page is in need of rewrite into proper style and with psychological sources. The articles we have found fall under the categories of background information, how people experience music differently, the experimental effects of music on emotion, the psychology behind music therapy, and music in abnormal psychology. We will try to include some of the current information, but rewrite it in the proper style.

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We will be continuously working on this article, with hopes for it to go live Oct. 29, any feedback or help would be appreciated.

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Bad link
The link for dynamic structure redirects to space fountain. I am not sure if a dynamic structure page exists. The link is part of the following quote segment. "between music’s temporally unfolding dynamic structure and configurations of human behaviour" — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.231.219.236 (talk) 18:05, 23 September 2012 (UTC)

I will be working on the psychology methods and enhancing and adding more sections to this page over the next few days. Nathalya Cubas (talk) 11:31, 1 November 2012 (UTC)

Davidson edits (2012)
Student will be adding new references. Greta Munger (talk) 18:41, 1 November 2012 (UTC)

Overall
1. Great! 2. Wiki format of titles is to only capitalize the first word in the title of the section 3. I counted only 19 sources 4. Adding embedded links to other wiki pages is suggested 5. I don’t think you need the authors’ names in parentheses. The citation at the end of the sentence should be sufficient for this.

When young children begin deciphering emotions in music
You mention “participants” in the first sentence and the title of this section; it might be helpful to give some information on the exact age of the children, even if it’s just in parentheses. Also, are the studies done with children and adults in the same study or are you comparing a study with children to a study with adults? You could make that a little clearer. Is the conclusion that this ability is formed somewhere between the age of 3 and 4?

Music as a therapeutic tool
I would include a more methods in this section, so that the reader understands more about how/why you are making these statements. Highlighting one method and discussing it could be good, just so others know that the statements you are making have been experimentally tested and are the results shown in empirical data. I really like that you noted that there is still work being done in this area and we don’t know all the answers.

Music-induced emotions affected by the individual
There is a typo in the fourth sentence. I understand perfectly the findings in this section; however, I think you should list out or have an opening sentence outlining the different aspects of the individual that you are about to discuss.

Infants and Music
You mention a researcher named Vist in this section. This might be a good opportunity to add embedded link or just elaborate on who the researcher is. The conclusions in this section are clear and concise.

KatieRamseur (talk) 22:33, 9 November 2012 (UTC)

Peer Review
Overall, it is great that you have provided so much information. I think that your main topics are well organized. I liked the section about the structural features of music and its association with emotions. This section is very concise and cohesive.

I would suggest working more on the wiki style writing, so that some information is easier to read and understand. In particular, the sections about the various studies and methods need more of this, which I understand may be a little more difficult to reduce. In some of the studies you mentioned, it may help to omit arbitrary details such as how many participants there were. Furthermore, according to wiki style, you should take out the names of researchers. Maybe you should replace their names with just researchers or experimenters.

In the first few sections, the writing became a little wordy and repetitive with words like sad, sadness, and emotion. Try to vary these words with other synonyms. In the psychological methods and the conflicting cues and nature of musical emotion sections, I would suggest breaking down the paragraphs into smaller paragraphs. Also, I think you should explain the formulas in the conveying emotion through music section. Maybe a table would be useful.

Lastly, just make sure there are no spaces between citation and periods. (I think I just saw one in the Music as a therapeutic tool section.)

Great job on your wiki, Nat! Best of luck!

--Jamela Peterson (talk) 08:56, 12 November 2012 (UTC)

Restructuring of article/ editing content with APS initiative through Northeastern University Course
I am a new editor to Wikipedia working with more experienced editors and Wikipedia ambassadors through a Northeastern course affiliated with the Association for Psychological Science Wikipedia Initiative.

I made a few changes to restructure the article in a more Wikipedia-appropriate way (i.e. adding the table in the "Structural Features" section.

Though I didn't have time to make all the changes I wanted, here are some suggestion for future editors to help clean up this page:

1) Limit the use of subheading with small follow-up content (i.e. Performance features). Wikipedia seems to prefer paragraph form to fit with the encyclopedia standard. 2) Consider including the BRECVEM model in its own page. We think this seems to be a bit too in-depth for Music and Emotion page, but might work as a stand-alone article that could be linked to this page. 3) Link to other pages when possible, but multiple links to the same page within a short section of the article is not necessary.

Amygdalalover (talk) 18:10, 12 December 2014 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your good work - this is an important page under the music psychology banner. Some citations are needed for your edited therapy section at the bottom. I've returned one (and added a link to the main article). Could you add the other where I've marked it? I don't know your source. Thanks! geordie (talk) 14:48, 13 December 2014 (UTC)

Sinister/foreboding bass note
What is that trick used by documentary film makers to tell the viewer "this subject is bad", i.e. recent documentary by channel 4 TV in UK on Donald Trump, and used on documentaries about any extremist political group. It's basically a constant low bass hum which attacks the sub-conscious. Presumably documentary makers have a name for it as it is a commonly used tool. Would it have a place in this article, or anywhere else on WP?(Lobsterthermidor (talk) 16:19, 28 March 2016 (UTC))

Primitive music/rhythm
The article tends to talk about more modern aspects of music and our reaction to it. However, it has roots in simpler rhythms, rocking and shuffling of feet, simple repetitive sounds, and the like, and to ignore these origins seems to me to miss the innate genesis of the roots of music. don't know how to sign this ... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.95.255.231 (talk) 16:32, 1 January 2018 (UTC)

Responses to elicited emotion
In the section of Responses to elicited emotion, about the research survey, I think I can introduce relevant information about the number of participants, age and other related information, as well as the charts and data about the research survey, which will be clearer and more convincing to read.COM2032960 (talk) 21:08, 12 February 2021 (UTC)

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Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented?
I feel as though this article covered a great deal of information in relation to music and emotion, but when it came to the part regarding lyrics in music, I feel the writer really missed the mark. There was a lot of emphasis on lyrics evoking "fear" in the listener, but that's the only thing the write left when talking about lyrics in music. Take Bob Dylan for example, who had won a Pulitzer Prize for the lyrics in his music, which I think is quite obvious are usually not lyrics that evoke fear. As a songwriter and musician, myself, lyrics can create all kinds of emotion from fear, sadness, happiness, and basically every emotion under the sun. I think more needs to be added to the article when it comes to lyrics as the last thing I probably think about when I think about how lyrics affect emotions through music, is fear. WillieBean10 (talk) 15:30, 9 April 2024 (UTC)