Supervisors info:
Αναστασία Γεωργάκη, Αναπληρώτρια Καθηγήτρια, Τμήμα μουσικών σπουδών, Ε.Κ.Π.Α
Χριστίνα Αναγνωστοπούλου, Αναπληρώτρια Καθηγήτρια, Τμήμα μουσικών σπουδών, Ε.Κ.Π.Α
Αρετή Ανδρεοπούλου, Επίκουρη Καθηγήτρια, Τμήμα μουσικών σπουδών, Ε.Κ.Π.Α
Summary:
Music is inextricably linked, as an organized sound in its original form, with its response from the recipient-listener. Besides the objective recruitment of the sound event at a time, there is also the subjective perception of the event by the individual listener. In the subjective perception of music there are two factors that contribute to the decoding of the music and the sound meaning as perceived by each listener; Music in relation to emotion, and musical empathy. Empathy, in its general sense, is defined as our ability to emotionally identify with the mental state of another person, and the understanding of his or her behavior and motivation. Music empathy, respectively, refers to the ability of a listener to understand what emotion is expressed by a musical piece and how intensely it is. Regarding music and emotion, it has been found that music with the structural elements it can contain (melody, sound, organized harmonic structure, rhythm, tempo etc.) can directly affect, regardless of the verbal meaning, the feeling of a listener. The main goal of diplomatic work is to demonstrate, through an experimental process, that the greater the level of empathy a listener has, the more he understands the expressed emotion of the music he hears, always in relation to the basic emotions that a musical composition can express: Happiness, Sadness, Terror, Anger, Funny. We believe in the present work to give a clear picture and interpretation in terms of musical empathy, as well as through the experiment, which will analyze below, to provide sufficient evidence and a trigger for future research into musical empathy.
Keywords:
music and emotion, empathy, musical empathy, expressing emotion, music cognition, listening to music, emotions, understanding.
