There has been little quantitative research by psychologists concerning the music of The Beatles. The present research compared their music against a database of 169,909 songs for which data was ...
Empirical Musicology Review (EMR) aims to provide an international forum promoting the understanding of music in all of its facets.
Melodies are full of repeated patterns of pitch, interval, and rhythm. It has been suggested that these repeated patterns aid the listener in creating an efficient encoding; this raises the possi...
A listening experiment was designed to test whether modern listeners perceive the same affective content in Baroque music as the composer intended to portray. Listeners rated three musical exampl...
This commentary responds to the article by Nicholas Shea in Vol. 17(1) of this journal, which offers a method to encode the demographic information of the artists in a corpus of popular music and...
This article is a commentary on "Are The Beatles Different? A Computerized Psychological Analysis of Their Music," by North and Krause (2023), in which they analyze features extracted from the Sp...
Music is often regarded as the 'language of the emotions' (Cooke, 1995), and since the early 20th century, empirical research into musical emotions has been conducted to explore the mystery of ho...
Frank (et al.)'s article, "Exploring the variability of musical-emotion expression over historical time" is a thoughtful, creative attempt to tackle the thorny problem of reconstructing the histo...
The following is a commentary of David Temperley's article on melodic pattern repetition and encoding. The article advances our understanding of patterns that could foster efficient encoding of m...