tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605329.post7655359712282931934..comments2024-03-14T23:52:09.893-07:00Comments on The Neurocritic: Music and EmpathyThe Neurocritichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08010555869208208621noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605329.post-76410398211076827162013-12-25T08:03:17.643-08:002013-12-25T08:03:17.643-08:00Music and Emotions
The most difficult problem in...Music and Emotions<br /><br />The most difficult problem in answering the question of how music creates emotions is likely to be the fact that assignments of musical elements and emotions can never be defined clearly. The solution of this problem is the Theory of Musical Equilibration. It says that music can't convey any emotion at all, but merely volitional processes, the music listener identifies with. Then in the process of identifying the volitional processes are colored with emotions. The same happens when we watch an exciting film and identify with the volitional processes of our favorite figures. Here, too, just the process of identification generates emotions.<br /><br />An example: If you perceive a major chord, you normally identify with the will "Yes, I want to...". If you perceive a minor chord, you identify normally with the will "I don't want any more...". If you play the minor chord softly, you connect the will "I don't want any more..." with a feeling of sadness. If you play the minor chord loudly, you connect the same will with a feeling of rage. You distinguish in the same way as you would distinguish, if someone would say the words "I don't want anymore..." the first time softly and the second time loudly. <br />Because this detour of emotions via volitional processes was not detected, also all music psychological and neurological experiments, to answer the question of the origin of the emotions in the music, failed.<br /><br />But how music can convey volitional processes? These volitional processes have something to do with the phenomena which early music theorists called "lead", "leading tone" or "striving effects". If we reverse this musical phenomena in imagination into its opposite (not the sound wants to change - but the listener identifies with a will not to change the sound) we have found the contents of will, the music listener identifies with. In practice, everything becomes a bit more complicated, so that even more sophisticated volitional processes can be represented musically.<br /><br />Further information is available via the free download of the e-book "Music and Emotion - Research on the Theory of Musical Equilibration:<br /><br />www.willimekmusic.de/music-and-emotions.pdf<br /><br />or on the online journal EUNOMIOS:<br /><br />www.eunomios.org<br /><br />Enjoy reading <br /><br />Bernd Willimek<br />willimekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16594456745352251249noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605329.post-43533091569193407972012-12-30T14:30:44.717-08:002012-12-30T14:30:44.717-08:00May I suggest a further resource to learn more ab...May I suggest a further resource to learn more about empathy and compassion. <br />The Center for Building a Culture of Empathy<br />The Culture of Empathy website is the largest internet portal for resources and information about the values of empathy and compassion. It contains articles, conferences, definitions, experts, history, interviews, videos, science and much more about empathy and compassion.<br />http://CultureOfEmpathy.com<br />Edwin Rutschhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03037699512759777503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605329.post-67698497124606148892012-12-30T09:00:24.261-08:002012-12-30T09:00:24.261-08:00The Cellular Scale - Yeah, that Churchland quote i...The Cellular Scale - Yeah, that Churchland quote is great.<br /><br />Neuroskeptic - I don't know about that (sounding exactly the same)... "Fish" "Hate My Way" and "Vicky's Box" each sound like nothing I've ever heard before. Some of the songs on <i>Limbo</i> might be more like each other than like their earlier work.The Neurocritichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08010555869208208621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605329.post-55359174206443870362012-12-30T01:48:39.647-08:002012-12-30T01:48:39.647-08:00Throwing Muses are pretty good, although they have...Throwing Muses are pretty good, although they have a lot of songs that sound exactly the same - but most bands do. "Serene" is their best song.Neuroskeptichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06647064768789308157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605329.post-28383939099812241732012-12-28T06:03:38.324-08:002012-12-28T06:03:38.324-08:00Love the Patricia Churchland quote.Love the Patricia Churchland quote.TheCellularScalehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18379669883853001278noreply@blogger.com