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GtrsRGr8 · 02-19-2016, 07:57 PM

The subject of this book is one that is interesting to me. Perhaps it is, or will be, for others of you also.

The book gets technical at times (I've found that a lot of pdf's found on the Web are like that). I'm sure that you would have to have had advanced education in music in order to be able to comprehend it all. However, I think that the average Mobilereader is capable of picking through it and gaining a lot of information from it.

The book appears to have been published in physical form in Germany, under a couple of different titles. However, I have not found any indication that it ever has been published in a physical form in the United States.

I could not find it either at the U.S. Amazon or at GoodReads; I couldn't even find it at the German Amazon (amazon.de). So, I have no ratings of the book to share with you. However, the authors appear to be very accomplished musicians (see information about them here, at their personal webpage (you have an option to read information in English about the authors from the menu near the top of the page, the rest of the website will have to be translated)) and the book well-researched. In part because of those facts, I'm sure that this book is a solid one.

Title: Music and Emotions :Research on the Theory of Musical Equilibration (die Strebetendenz-Theorie).
Format: Pdf.
Author(s): Daniela and Bernd Willimek.
Publisher: Daniela and Bernd Willimek?
Pages: v + 81.
Ebook Rating/Number of Reviews (Amazon): N/A.
Price: $0.00.
Lowest Price at Amazon if available there: N/A.
Book Description (From the Introduction):
The link between music and emotions is more of an issue than ever before, and music research is increasingly focusing on understanding the complex characteristics of this interaction. After all, for a long time the fact that music has an emotional impact upon us was one of the greatest of enigmas, since fundamentally it only consists of inanimate frequencies . . . .

Although people like to describe music as an international language, science has still not been able to provide an explanation that deconstructs the nature of this language. For decades, it left the task of decrypting this enigma to a small group of people: music psychologists. Despite being well-equipped with statistics software and calculators, music psychologists to date have not had any more success than the widely-cited brain research of recent decades when it comes to resolving the question about why music can stimulate an emotional response.

The Theory of Musical Equilibration (known in the original German as the StrebetendenzTheorie) is the first to create a psychological paradigm which explains the emotional effects of music. It breaks down musical sequences into one of their most essential components ― harmony ― and directly uses this material as the basis of its argumentation . . . .
Comments: The pdf appears on the authors' website (http://www.willimekmusic.de/), so I believe that it is legal to download.
URL: http://www.willimekmusic.de/music-and-emotions.pdf (direct link).

02-19-2016, 07:57 PM	#435
GtrsRGr8 Grand Sorcerer Posts: 7,334 Karma: 27815322 Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Southeastern U.S., ya'll Device: Kindle; Kindle (10.1.1) for PC; Kindle Cloud Reader	FREE Pdf of a Book about How Music Affects Emotions. The subject of this book is one that is interesting to me. Perhaps it is, or will be, for others of you also. The book gets technical at times (I've found that a lot of pdf's found on the Web are like that). I'm sure that you would have to have had advanced education in music in order to be able to comprehend it all. However, I think that the average Mobilereader is capable of picking through it and gaining a lot of information from it. The book appears to have been published in physical form in Germany, under a couple of different titles. However, I have not found any indication that it ever has been published in a physical form in the United States. I could not find it either at the U.S. Amazon or at GoodReads; I couldn't even find it at the German Amazon (amazon.de). So, I have no ratings of the book to share with you. However, the authors appear to be very accomplished musicians (see information about them here, at their personal webpage (you have an option to read information in English about the authors from the menu near the top of the page, the rest of the website will have to be translated)) and the book well-researched. In part because of those facts, I'm sure that this book is a solid one. Title: *Music and Emotions :Research on the Theory of Musical Equilibration (die Strebetendenz-Theorie). Format:* Pdf. Author(s): Daniela and Bernd Willimek. Publisher: Daniela and Bernd Willimek? Pages: v + 81. Ebook Rating/Number of Reviews (Amazon): N/A. Price: *$0.00. Lowest Price at Amazon if available there:* N/A. Book Description (From the Introduction): The link between music and emotions is more of an issue than ever before, and music research is increasingly focusing on understanding the complex characteristics of this interaction. After all, for a long time the fact that music has an emotional impact upon us was one of the greatest of enigmas, since fundamentally it only consists of inanimate frequencies . . . . Although people like to describe music as an international language, science has still not been able to provide an explanation that deconstructs the nature of this language. For decades, it left the task of decrypting this enigma to a small group of people: music psychologists. Despite being well-equipped with statistics software and calculators, music psychologists to date have not had any more success than the widely-cited brain research of recent decades when it comes to resolving the question about why music can stimulate an emotional response. The Theory of Musical Equilibration (known in the original German as the StrebetendenzTheorie) is the first to create a psychological paradigm which explains the emotional effects of music. It breaks down musical sequences into one of their most essential components ― harmony ― and directly uses this material as the basis of its argumentation . . . . Comments: The pdf appears on the authors' website (http://www.willimekmusic.de/), so I believe that it is legal to download. URL: http://www.willimekmusic.de/music-and-emotions.pdf (direct link). Last edited by GtrsRGr8; 02-19-2016 at 08:52 PM.