Articulates an imaginationist solution to the question of how purely instrumental music can be perceived by a listener as having emotional content. Both musicia
Both musicians and laypersons can perceive purely instrumental music without words or an associated story or program as expressing emotions such as happiness an
Recent years have seen an enormous amount of philosophical research into the emotions and the imagination, but as yet little work has been done to connect the t
This new volume in the Series in Affective Science is the first book in over 40 years to tackle the complex and powerful relationship between music and emotion.