Słowa kluczowe
appraisal theory
musical persona
acoustic cues
basic emotion
compound emotion
affect
musical emotional style
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Liczba wyświetleń: 17
Liczba pobrań: 6
Abstrakt
In the book under review Michael Spitzer argues that Western music is capable of expressing the specific emotions of everyday life. In the first part he presents his appraisal theory, involving concepts such as first and second appraisal, musical persona, musical emotional style, and describes basic emotions (happiness, anger, sadness, love, fear) and compound emotions (wonder and the sublime, nostalgia and hope, pride and shame, jealousy and envy, disgust and boredom). The second part is devoted to the history of emotions in Western music. The author divides it into three periods, of which the most important one is the middle one, “affective realism”, stretching from 1640 to 1910, since it is then that the model of music-emotional behaviour of a persona navigating a musical landscape was created and established. The two other periods are: before emotion and after emotion. Within each period the author discusses the then influential theory of emotion and all the emotions dominant in the compositions. The narrative in both parts is enriched by music examples, numbering more than one hundred. The review notes that previously nobody had shown as clearly as Michael Spitzer that the emotions of everyday life have their analogies in the structural features of music, and no one had included such extensive musical material in their research. The book engages the reader not only by its essentially simple appraisal theory, but also by its very thorough analysis of relations between perceived emotion and specific musical cues. One admires all the interpretations, which may have enormous didactic significance. With reference to the historical part, the reviewer suggests that the works of neoclassicists and those of the generation of “digital natives” should be tested for musical emotions. Finally, the review encourages readers to get acquainted with the book, since it may help resolve doubts and bring answers to some troubling questions.
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