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Hentschel, Frank ORCID: 0000-0002-9441-3396 and Cui, Anja-Xiaoxing (2022). EXPLORING 19 TH - CENTURY PERCEPTION OF UNCANNY'' MUSIC USING A SEMANTIC NETWORK APPROACH. Music Percept., 40 (2). S. 168 - 190. OAKLAND: UNIV CALIFORNIA PRESS. ISSN 0730-7829

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Abstract

THE PERCEPTION AND EXPERIENCE OF EMOTIONS IN response to music listening are subject of a growing body of empirical research across the humanities and social sciences. While we are now able to investigate music perception in different parts of the world, insights into historical music perception remain elusive, mainly because the direct interrogation of music listeners of the past is no longer possible. Here, we present an approach to the retroactive exploration of historical music perception using semantic network analysis of historical text documents. To illustrate this approach, we analyzed written accounts of 19th-century perception of music that is described as uncanny'' (unheimlich). The high centrality values of eerie'' (gespenstisch) indicate that music termed as such should be highly similar to uncanny'' (unheimlich) music. We thus also analyzed written accounts of 19th-century perception of music described as eerie'' (gespenstisch). Using semantic network analyses on other expressive qualities as well as compositional features, we were then able to highlight in which way uncanny'' (unheimlich) and eerie'' (gespenstisch) music are similar and how they might be distinguished. Semantic network analysis may thus be a valuable tool in describing what compositional features were associated with particular expressive qualities by listeners of the past.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Hentschel, Frank UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-9441-3396 UNSPECIFIED Cui, Anja-Xiaoxing UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-675585
DOI:	10.1525/MP.2022.40.2.168
Journal or Publication Title:	Music Percept.
Volume:	40
Number:	2
Page Range:	S. 168 - 190
Date:	2022
Publisher:	UNIV CALIFORNIA PRESS
Place of Publication:	OAKLAND
ISSN:	0730-7829
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language EMOTIONAL RESPONSES; FRIENDSHIP; WESTERN; LISTENERS; MODELS Multiple languages Music; Psychology, Experimental Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/67558