![]() ![]() The neurological structure most commonly associated with fear is the amygdala, and the amygdala is frequently implicated in studies of musical emotion. Music is frequently employed, in the laboratory as well as the cinema, to portray and arouse fear. The hope is that, by investigating this interface in the biological sense, the insight gained will be of relevance to scientists and music analysts alike. The ultimate aim of this dissertation is to carry out this investigation by examining the biological bases of music perception, emotional experience, and their interface. ![]() This modular solution is promising, but it demands further investigation. ![]() A number of scholars converged upon a solution to the rehearing problem in the mid-eighties: the musical mind, they posited, is “modular” in the manner of Fodor (1983), and affect is a product of the modular “parser” rather than of the “central processor” (or long-term memory apparatus Jackendoff 1987, 1991). The expectation theory, however, while promising, is plagued by what is called “the rehearing problem”: if carried to its logical conclusion, the theory predicts that music will diminish in emotional impact as the listener gains familiarity with it, a prediction which seems contrary to experience. Of these, the first two are considered domain general and are thus given no further attention the final three, however, are considered to be domain-specific and are given extended consideration, with particular emphasis being placed on Leonard Meyer’s (1956) expectation theory (and its recent revitalization by Huron ). A number of such of mechanisms are identified, including: association, resemblance, speech resemblance, naturalness, and expectation. The aim of this dissertation is thus to identify the mechanisms whereby music arouses and modulates emotion. It begins by asking three questions: Does music arouse emotions? If so, which ones does it arouse? And how does it arouse them? The first two questions are addressed cursorily in the opening chapters, but the majority of the dissertation focuses upon the third question.
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