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MPCL Bibliographies: Affect / Expression
Compiled at the Music Perception and Cognition Laboratory (MPCL) — McGill University.
Updated March 28, 2022.
Barthet, M., Depalle, P., Kronland-Martinet, R., & Ystad, S. (2010). Acoustical correlates of timbre and expressiveness in clarinet performance. Music Perception, 28(2), 135–154. https://doi.org/10.1525/mp.2010.28.2.135
Barthet, M., Guillemain, P., Kronland-Martinet, R., & Ystad, S. (2010). From clarinet control to timbre perception. Acta Acustica United with Acustica, 96(4), 678–689. https://doi.org/10.3813/AAA.918322
Barthet, M., Kronland-Martinet, R., & Ystad, S. (2008). Improving musical expressiveness by time-varying brightness shaping. Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval: Sense of Sounds, 4969, 313–336. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85035-9_22
Behrens, G. A., & Green, S. B. (1993). The ability to identify emotional content of solo improvisations performed vocally and on three different instruments. Psychology of Music, 21(1), 20–33. https://doi.org/10.1177/030573569302100102
Belin, P., Fillion-Bilodeau, S., & Gosselin, F. (2008). The Montreal affective voices: A validated set of nonverbal affect bursts for research on auditory affective processing. Behavior Research Methods, 40(2), 531–539. https://doi.org/10.3758/BRM.40.2.531
Belin, P. ; Zatorre., R. (2015). Neurobiology: Sounding the alarm. Current Biology, 25(18), 805–806. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2015.07.027
Bernays, M., & Traube, C. (2014). Investigating pianists’ individuality in the performance of five timbral nuances through patterns of articulation, touch, dynamics and pedalling. Frontiers in Psychology, 5(157), 1–19. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00157
Bigand, E., Vieillard, S., Madurell, F., Marozeau, F., & Dacquet, A. (2005). Multidimensional scaling of emotional responses to music: The effect of musical expertise and of the duration of the excerpts. Cognition and Emotion, 19(8), 1113–1139. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699930500204250
Blumstein, D. T., Bryant, G. A., & Kaye, P. (2012). The sound of arousal in music is context-dependent. Biology Letters, 8(5), 744–747. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2012.0374
Bonin, T. L., Trainor, L. J., Belyk, M., & Andrews, P. W. (2016). The source dilemma hypothesis: Perceptual uncertainty contributes to musical emotion. Cognition, 154, 174–181. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2016.05.021
Bowling, D. L., Sundararajan, J., Han, S., & Purves, D. (2012). Expression of emotion in Eastern and Western music mirrors vocalization. Plos One, 7(3), e31942. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0031942
Bowman, C., & Yamauchi, T. (2016). Processing emotions in sounds: Cross-domain aftereffects of vocal utterances and musical sounds. Cognition and Emotion, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2016.1255588
Bradley, M. M., & Lang, P. J. (2000). Affective reactions to acoustic stimuli. Psychophysiology, 37(2), 204–215. https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-8986.3720204
Cespedes-Guevara, J., & Eerola, T. (2018). Music communicates affects, not basic emotions – A constructionist account of attribution of emotional meanings to music. Frontiers in Psychology, 9(215). https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00215
Chau, C. J., Wu, B., & Horner, A. (2015). The emotional characteristics and timbre of nonsustaining instrument sounds. Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, 63(4), 228–244. https://doi.org/10.17743/jaes.2015.0016
Cook, N., & Dibben, N. (2010). Emotion in Culture and History. In P. Juslin (Ed.), Handbook of music and emotion: Theory, research, applications (pp. 45–72). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199230143.003.0003
Eerola, T., Ferrer, R., & Alluri, V. (2012). Timbre and affect dimensions: Evidence from affect and similarity ratings and acoustic correlates of isolated instrument sounds. Music Perception, 30(1), 49–70. https://doi.org/10.1525/MP.2012.30.1.49
Eerola, T., Friberg, A., & Bresin, R. (2013). Emotional expression in music: Contribution, linearity, and additivity of primary musical cues. Frontiers in Psychology, 4. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00487
Hailstone, J. C., Omar, R., Henley, S. M. D., Frost, C., Kenward, M. G., & Warren, J. D. (2009). It’s not what you play, it’s how you play it: Timbre affects perception of emotion in music. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 62(11), 2141–2155. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470210902765957
Holmes, P. A. (2011). An exploration of musical communication through expressive use of timbre:The performer’s perspective. Psychology of Music, 40(3), 301–323. https://doi.org/10.1177/0305735610388898
Huron, D. ; A., N. ;. Shanahan, D. (2014). “You can’t play a sad song on the banjo:” Acoustic factors in the judgment of instrument capacity to convey sadness. Empirical Musicology Review, 9(1), 29–41. https://doi.org/10.18061/emr.v9i1.4085
Jaquet, L., Danuser, B., & Gomez, P. (2014). Music and felt emotions: How systematic pitch level variations affect the experience of pleasantness and arousal. Psychology of Music, 42(1), 51–70. https://doi.org/10.1177/0305735612456583
Laukka, P., Elfenbein, H. A., Söder, N., Nordström, H., Althoff, J., Chui, W., Iraki, F. K., Rockstuhl, T., & Thingujam, N. S. (2013). Cross-cultural decoding of positive and negative non-linguistic emotion vocalizations. Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00353
Leydon, R. (2012). Clean as a whistle: Timbral trajectories and the modern musical sublime. Music Theory Online, 18(2). http://www.mtosmt.org/issues/mto.12.18.2/mto.12.18.2.leydon.php
Liu, X., Xu, Y., Alter, K., & Tuomainen, J. (2018). Emotional connotations of musical instrument timbre in comparison with emotional speech prosody: Evidence from acoustics and event-related potentials. Frontiers in Psychology, 9(737). https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00737
Ma, W., & Thompson, W. F. (2015). Human emotions track changes in the acoustic environment. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112(47), 14563–14568. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1515087112
McAdams, S., Douglas, C., & Vempala, N. N. (2017). Perception and modeling of affective qualities of musical instrument sounds across pitch registers. Frontiers in Psychology, 8(153). https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00153
Morton, E. S. (1977). On the occurrence and significance of motivation-structural rules in some bird and mammal sounds. American Naturalist, 111(981), 855–869.
Padova, A., Bianchini, L., Lupone, M., & Belardinelli, M. O. (2003). Influence of specific spectral variations of musical timbre on emotions in the listeners. (R. Kopiez, A. C. Lehmann, I. Wolther, & Wolf. C., Eds.).
Padova, A., Santoboni, R., & Belardinelli, M. O. (2005). Influence of timbre on emotions and recognition memory for music. Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology, Montreal, Canada.
Paquette, S., Takerkart, S., Saget, S., Peretz, I., & Belin, P. (2018). Cross-classification of musical and vocal emotions in the auditory cortex. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1423(1), 329–337. https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.13666
Pätynen, J., & Lokki, T. (2016). Concert halls with strong and lateral sound increase the emotional impact of orchestra music. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 139(3), 1214–1224. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4944038
Sachs, M. E., Habibi, A., Damasio, A., & Kaplan, J. T. (2018). Decoding the neural signatures of emotions expressed through sound. NeuroImage, 174, 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.02.058
Scherer, K. R. (1995). Expression of emotion in voice and music. Journal of Voice, 9(3), 235–248. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0892-1997(05)80231-0
Sethares, W. A., & Toussaint, G. T. (2015). Expressive timbre and timing in rhythmic performance: Analysis of Steve Reich’s clapping music. Journal of New Music Research, 44(1), 11–24. https://doi.org/10.1080/09298215.2014.935736
Smialek, E. T. (2015). Genre and expression in extreme metal music, ca. 1990–2015 [Thesis]. McGill University.
Tajadura-Jiménez, A., Larsson, P., Väljamäe, A., Västfjäll, D., & Kleiner, M. (2010). When room size matters: Acoustic influences on emotional responses to sounds. Emotion, 10(3), 416–422. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0018423
Västfjäll, D., Larsson, P., & Kleiner, M. (2002). Emotion and auditory virtual environments: Affect-based judgments of music reproduced with virtual reverberation times. CyberPsychology & Behavior, 5(1), 19–32. https://doi.org/10.1089/109493102753685854
Wu, B., Horner, A., & Lee, C. (2014). Emotional predisposition of musical instrument timbres with static spectra. 15th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference.