At 08:44 AM 11/16/2001 -0600, you wrote: >Hi > >Type "balkwill" and "music" into www.google.com and you will get >lots of hits. Laura Balkwill was an undergraduate here and went >on to do graduate studies in music and psychology at York >University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada (aside ... By my reading >of the new APA guide, Toronto is not a major enough city to avoid >having to give the provincial affiliation. Same for >Montreal). Her publications include one on affect. > >Her advisor appears to be someone named Thompson, who has done >considerable work in this area. > >There appears to be quite a bit of contemporary work in this >area. >
Jim: Thanks much for the lead. I'm going to have my student follow up on it. (Actually, I already checked it out, and think there are some things there that we haven't seen yet.) You're right in that there is a pretty good empirical literature on emotion and music, looking at a variety of a variety of structural characteristics of music (tempo, rhythm, pitch, etc.). But we've had a devil of a time finding anything looking strictly at key and emotional. (Is A major a "happier" key than D major?) I'll let you know what we find. Cheers! Bob **************************************************************** Robert T. Herdegen III Elliott Professor of Psychology Department of Psychology Hampden-Sydney College Hampden-Sydney, VA 23943 804-223-6166 **************************************************************** --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
