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The Psychology of Music

Wednesday, 22 January 2020

Public poster presentation was held on January 27, 2020. The first prize went to Joep Janssens - Congratulations!

On January 27, 2020 students taking the seminar “Music Psychology” (Parncutt) in Graz’s interuniversity “Musikologie” curriculum presented their posters on different reasearch areas.

Posters addressed questions such as:

• Does music performance anxiety depend on personality?

• How important is audiation for sight-reading?

• Does musical training enhance empathy?

• Does timbre affect musical emotion?

• How does music imply movement?

• Can sad music put you in a good mood?

• Can musical emotions be recognized across cultures?

• Does seeing the performer change the musical emotion?

Ancient philosophers were already asking psychological questions about music. The academic discipline of music psychology emerged in late 19th-century Germany. After the “cognitive turn” in 1960s psychology, music psychology established itself internationally with societies, conference series and peer-reviewed journals (e.g., Music Perception, Jahrbuch Musikpsychologie, Psychology of Music, Musicae Scientiae). Today, the perception and performance of music is investigated with psychological research methods. Our posters present examples of current research and their theoretical and practical implications.

The best posters were determined by members of the centre. The first prize went to Joep Janssens with his poster on the role of audiation in sight-reading ability. The second prizewinner was Klara Pelin who addressed music performance anxiety and the role of personality. Third was Johanna Zuderell with a poster entitled “Improved mood through sad music”.

Congratulations!

 

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