Klarinet Archive - Posting 000469.txt from 1995/10

From: Andrew Stiller <kallisti@-----.US>
Subj: Re: More questions! :)
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 1995 18:38:13 -0400

Can anyone tell me how music affects the emotions and thought
processes?
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The short answer is: no one knows. For my money, though, it's a
biologically inherent part of being human--see my article "Toward a
Biology of Music" in *Opus* (note: not *Schwann/Opus*), vol. 3 no. 5
(Aug. 1987). I think, too, that there is only one musical emotion. We
can "color" it sad, happy, or whatever by learned context, but it's
really all one feeling, of different degrees.

Andrew Stiller
Kallisti Music Press
kallisti@-----.us