To listen, to feel and to understand: on the role of emotions in the aesthetic-musical experience

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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2318-8863.discurso.2023.215689

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music, emotions, narrative, understanding, reception theory

Abstract

The article examines the role of emotions in the experience with (instrumental) music, developing three basic theses: 1) music can be considered as a “narrative text”, which performs a specific mode of engagement; 2) emotions appear in the musical experience basically in two ways: as expression (or “clarification”), when the psychological agent carrying such emotions is the musical persona, and as something that should constitute the listener’s experience; 3) the listener's emotional responses constitute an active and necessary process for filling in the “gaps” of the musical narrative and decisively compose the process of understanding the musical work.

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2023-08-31

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Trombetta, G. L. (2023). To listen, to feel and to understand: on the role of emotions in the aesthetic-musical experience. Discurso, 53(2), 160-175. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2318-8863.discurso.2023.215689