How music moves: Musical parameters and listeners' images of motion

Citation:

Zohar Eitan and Roni Y. Granot. 2006. “How music moves: Musical parameters and listeners' images of motion,” 23, 3, Pp. 221.

Abstract:

An empirical investigation of the ways listeners associate changes in musical parameters with physical space and bodily motion is presented. Results shows that most musical parameters significantly affect several dimensions of motion imagery, wherein musical abatements are strongly associated with spatial descents, while musical intensifications are generally associated with increasing speed rather than ascent.