Saturday, March 15, 2014

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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