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T1 Experimental Enhancement of Feelings of Transcendence, Tenderness, and Expressiveness by Music in Christian Liturgical Spaces
A1 Jimenez Pasalodos, Raquel
A1 López-Mochales, Samantha
A1 Jiménez-Pasalodos, Raquel
A1 Valenzuela, Jose
A1 Gutiérrez-Cajaraville, Carlos
A1 Díaz-Andreu, Margarita
A1 Escera, Carles
AB In western cultures, when it comes to places of worship and liturgies, music, acoustics and architecture go hand in hand. In the present study, we aimed to investigate whether the emotions evoked by music are enhanced by the acoustics of the space where the music was composed to be played on. We explored whether the emotional responses of western naïve listeners to two vocal pieces from the Renaissance, one liturgical and one secular, convolved with the impulse responses of four Christian temples from the United Kingdom, were modulated by the appropriate piece/space matching. In an alternative forced choice task where participants had to indicate their preference for the original recording of the piece (not convolved with any temple-like acoustics) vs. the convolved one, no significant differences were found. However, in the tasks where participants rated their emotional in response to each piece and acoustic condition, the factorial ANCOVA analyses performed on the results revealed significant effects. We observed that, across pieces and spaces, participants found the temple-like acoustics as more transcendent, compared to the acoustics of the original version of the pieces. In addition, they rated the secular piece as more tender and the liturgical piece as more expressive in its original versions, compared to the convolved ones. We conclude that the acoustic signature of the four Christian temples causes an exaltation of certain emotions on listeners, although this effect is not associated to one or another musical piece.
PB Frontiers in Psychology
YR 2022
FD 2022
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/64673
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/64673
LA eng
NO López-Mochales Samantha, Jiménez-Pasalodos Raquel, Valenzuela Jose, Gutiérrez-Cajaraville Carlos, Díaz-Andreu Margarita, Escera Carles. 2022. "Experimental Enhancement of Feelings of Transcendence, Tenderness, and Expressiveness by Music in Christian Liturgical Spaces" Frontiers in Psychology, 13 DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2022.844029
NO Producción Científica
DS UVaDOC
RD 23-may-2024