Affective Responses to Music: An Affective Science Perspective

Music has strong emotional powers. How are we to understand affective responses music? What does music teach us about emotions? Why musical emotions important? Despite the rich literature in philosophy and empirical sciences, particularly psychology neuroscience, little attention been paid integrating these approaches. This extensive review aims redress this imbalance establish a mutual dialogue between sciences by presenting main philosophical puzzles from an science perspective. The chief problem is contagion. Sometimes, listeners perceive as expressing some emotion elicits same them. Contagion perplexing because it collides with leading theory of experiences values. article mostly revolves around critical presentation solutions light recent developments science. It also highlights practical issues, role well-being health, tackling paradox sad music, i.e., question why people enjoy music. thus bridges important gap theoretical real-life issues well investigations on