Affective responses to complexity in harmonic progression between music and nonmusic majors
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The purpose of this study was to examine listeners’ responses to different levels of complexity in harmonic progression in music. A total of 77 college students, 37 music and 40 nonmusic majors, participated in this study. The musical stimuli were composed in five different levels of harmonic progression sequentially for this study. After listening to each musical stimuli, participants rated their responses on the 11-point semantic differential scales that examined the dimensions of activity, evaluation, and potency of emotion. The results showed that regarding the activity variable, the music major group perceived increased emotional activity with increased complexity, and the nonmusic major group showed a similar trend but to a lesser degree. Both groups showed a decreased response in evaluation with increased complexity in harmonic progression. Music majors rated music with higher complexity more positively than did nonmusic majors. Also, in terms of potency, both groups perceived more power in the music with increased complexity of harmonic progression, but this was considerably more pronounced in the music major group. Based on the results, one can conclude that there is a similar trait in the responses of listeners in both groups; however, the music major group showed a greater degree of response than that of the nonmusic major group as the complexity in harmonic progression increased. This suggests that music training and music experiences may prime listeners to more readily perceive increased energy, power, depth, and sensitivity of emotion with increased harmonic complexity.
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The purpose of this study was to examine listeners’ responses to different levels of complexity in harmonic progression in music. A total of 77 college students, 37 music and 40 nonmusic majors, participated in this study. The musical stimuli were composed in five different levels of harmonic progression sequentially for this study. After listening to each musical stimuli, participants rated their responses on the 11-point semantic differential scales that examined the dimensions of activity, evaluation, and potency of emotion. The results showed that regarding the activity variable, the music major group perceived increased emotional activity with increased complexity, and the nonmusic major group showed a similar trend but to a lesser degree. Both groups showed a decreased response in evaluation with increased complexity in harmonic progression. Music majors rated music with higher complexity more positively than did nonmusic majors. Also, in terms of potency, both groups perceived more power in the music with increased complexity of harmonic progression, but this was considerably more pronounced in the music major group. Based on the results, one can conclude that there is a similar trait in the responses of listeners in both groups; however, the music major group showed a greater degree of response than that of the nonmusic major group as the complexity in harmonic progression increased. This suggests that music training and music experiences may prime listeners to more readily perceive increased energy, power, depth, and sensitivity of emotion with increased harmonic complexity.
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