Ever wonder why you can so appreciate the music or songs? For example, melancholy songs that you listen to when you're broken heart or a song that somehow can make you so excited? Well, that question is also of interest to researchers who studied the theory of emotion in music. Yes, music can have a certain emotional charge, but "where" location of the functions of affective (emotional) music. On the music itself or in the audience? That is, we can say that music expresses a certain emotion because of the inherent properties of music (melody, tempo, etc.) or due to personal factors than we as the listener?
According to Alf Gabrielsson, an expert in the field of music psychology, to understand the emotional expression in music, we need to distinguish between the "emotion perception" and "emotion induction". That is, a listener can just capture the music from a musical expression of emotion without experiencing emotion itself. This process is referred to with emotion perception or perception of emotions contained in the music. That means no value of "objective" of emotional functions of music, which makes us as a listener can recognize the nuances of the music 'sad', 'happy', 'relaxing', etc.. Furthermore, when hearing a piece of music, we can 'experience' of certain emotions. This is the emotion induction process, where we lost in the music brings a certain emotion. Someone, therefore, be free to give emotional response to music he was hearing. By giddy, emotion perception is intended as an intellectual work (the extent of cognitive perception processes) while the emotion induction involves an emotional response (what is felt when hearing certain music).
A friend of mine who studied classical guitar, for example, admitted that he quite often do the "analysis" when playing a song. During intektual work, he tends not to respond emotionally, but more emphasis on the introduction of chords, beats, and other music properties. Another friend who also studied classical guitar playing technique also agree that if you are studying the composition of the guitar through the audio file, it will tend to be "cool" with the emotion in the song. But, they can understand the emotional charge contained in the music they hear. For example, fast tempo music for a carefree and minor scales to convey sadness. Up here, they do music in an intellectual assessment process (perception of emotion). On the other hand, they understand that music could also raises their melancholy side (induced emotions). For example, when I heard the strains of string instruments like cello, violin, or guitar, from a particular composition.
In addition, both will be very visible difference when we look at the relationship emotion perception and emotion induction itself. No automatic music lovers will feel the emotion in line with the emotional expression displayed in the music. As a fan of Tárrega, my two friends have had different perceptions of Lágrima, one of the guitar work of Spanish origin. Lágrima which have a typical "sad song" (believe it or not, features of emotion in that song has its own formula) interpreted one of my friends as the song that made him feel good, even though she knows feel "real" song. Moreover, we both know Lágrima means tears. More or less, it shows how differ We Can "knowing the feel of the music" and "feeling the music".
So, we can conclude that there is value expressive music on the music itself (hence can be emotion perception) as well as on the listener (related to the emotion induction). To note again is that there is a third factor: the situational factors. How the music was also presented influential in the affairs of this emotion. For example, try comparing your emotional sensation when she heard a melancholy music when you're feeling really happy and when you're instantly sad. I guarantee it's different!
