How your culture informs your emotional reaction to music
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The Concept of Musical Harmony
Researchers used music from a data base which they knew already the emotional c s that it would elicit from listeners in the west. Participants were able to discern emotions in their own language, in a foreign language and in their own music. The more loud a piece of music is, the more dominant it is perceived to be. Some fundamental elements of music, as in tempo and loudness and even pitch height, works in a similar manner across cultures.
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