Experimental Enhancement of Feelings of Transcendence, Tenderness, and Expressiveness by Music in Christian Liturgical Spaces
Por:
López-Mochales S, Jiménez-Pasalodos R, Valenzuela J, Gutiérrez-Cajaraville C, Díaz-Andreu M and Escera C
Publicada:
10 mar 2022
Ahead of Print:
10 mar 2022
Categoría:
Psychology (miscellaneous)
Resumen:
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 naive 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.
Filiaciones:
López-Mochales S:
Brainlab - Cognitive Neuroscience Research Group, Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Institute of Neurosciences, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Jiménez-Pasalodos R:
Departament d'Història i Arqueologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Sección Departamental de Historia y Ciencias de la Música, Universidad de Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain
Valenzuela J:
Brainlab - Cognitive Neuroscience Research Group, Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Institute of Neurosciences, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Gutiérrez-Cajaraville C:
Sección Departamental de Historia y Ciencias de la Música, Universidad de Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain
Díaz-Andreu M:
Departament d'Història i Arqueologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Barcelona, Spain
Institut d'Arqueologia de la Universitat de Barcelona (IAUB), Barcelona, Spain
Escera C:
Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Barcelona, Spain
Institut de Recerca Sant Joan de Déu (IRSJD), Esplugues de Llobregat, Spain
Institute of Neurosciences, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Brainlab - Cognitive Neuroscience Research Group, Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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