Percepción emocional a las escalas modales en músicos y psicólogos.

Abstract

The aim of this research was to determine how training in music and / or psychology influences the emotions attributed to musical pieces, created based on the modal harmonic system. For this, a correlational quantitative design, and the principles of emotional psychoneurobiology have been used, together with Reeve's theory.

To analyze the phenomenon, a track was designed for each modal scale of C, constituting seven tracks in total. While the participant was exposed to the different tracks, they answered a survey oriented to the evoked emotions was applied, this has ten questions, three oriented to physiological activation, three to cognitive activation, three to motor activation and a direct question to know with what emotion related the track “Which primary emotion do you consider to be more in line with the music? If you do not identify any, indicate it." Twenty-four psychologists, twenty-eight musicians, and forty-five people with training or education in other disciplines participated in this research, summing up ninety-seven participants.

We show that psychologists have greater facility in identifying the emotions evoked by the tracks, while musicians find it difficult to identify these, since they tend to focus on the structure and compositional elements of the music. Therefore, training influences how we listen to music. In addition to this, it was possible to identify that a specific emotion is attributed to each modal scale, where its tonality does not significantly influence the attributed emotion.