| Abstract [eng] |
It has been known for a long time that music can evoke emotions. However, it is still difficult to answer the question - why and how music affects people. Scholars look for answers in musical pieces and in musicians. There have been many different experimentations in order to relate emotions with particular musical aspects or dimensions and explore the consistency of these associations. It is known that music is considered to have few dimensions (tempo, scale, volume, pitch, etc.) which might influence the affective response. Also, a huge influence on inducing emotions happens to be in consonance and dissonance. Dissonance is described as an unmpleasant sensation while listening to two musical tones simultaneously, abscence of harmony, an opposition for consonance. These terms in musicology and music psychology often are added with new synonims such as smooth, harmonious, pleasant, rough, tense and so on. It is quite convenient to perceive sensory consonance and dissonance on the basis of musical intervals. Interval is the distance between two pitches expressed in tones and semitones. From a physical persepctive – it is a ratio between two fundamental frequencies. On the basis of musical intervals I have performed an experiment; its goal is to evaluate affective response – arousal and valence – to accurate and distorted musical intervals and determine the dependency of evaluation on listener‘s musical experience. |
