Music and Wellbeing - Nikki Rickard
Notes from
Nikki Rickard's session at the
4th Australian Positive Psychology and Well-being Conference:
What causes musical pleasure?
- Faster tempo
- Major modes
- Bright timbres
- Consonant intervals
- Regular rhythms
What are the mechanisms?
- Imagery: sounds like pleasant things
- Entrainment: coupled to an internal rhythm (e.g., heart rate, movement, etc.)
- Contagion: mimics perceived emotion
- Arousal: felt in the body
- Expectancy: prediction and schema
Beyond the music
- Performance, that is the skills of the performer
- Context
- Location
- Event type
- Audience behaviour
- Listener
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