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The Emotional Effect of Music
How does music achieve its emotional effect? The jury's out on a lot of issues. But one of the factors undoubtedly is because music is tapping into bodily movements. So it's not so much that music directly imitates an emotion. It's that music is corresponding in some way to a bodily experience or bodily movement associated with a particular emotion.