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Color, music, and emotion

Author(s) -

Stephen Palmer,

T. Langlois,

T. Tsang,

Karen B. Schloss,

D. J. Levitin

Publication year - 2011

Publication title -

journal of vision

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.126

H-Index - 113

ISSN - 1534-7362

DOI - 10.1167/11.11.391

Subject(s) - melody , piano , variation (astronomy) , theme (computing) , psychology , musical , mode (computer interface) , timbre , art , literature , computer science , art history , physics , astrophysics , operating system

The original color-music experiment used 18 recordings of orchestral selections as musical stimuli. 1. Will the color-music associations replicate with more tightly-controlled musical stimuli? 2. Which musical dimensions are most in uential in the relation between colors and music? The present study used single-line unaccompanied piano theme-and-variation melodies to vary: mode (major vs. minor key) note-density (quarter-notes vs. eighth-notes), tempo (fast vs. slow speed) register (high vs. low) while controlling for (i.e., no variation in): dynamics (soft vs. loud) orchestration (multiple instruments playing together) timbre (tone color) harmonic mode (harmony of simultaneous notes)

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