Music and Expression musicking in the instrumental lesson

Abstract

Although expression in speech as well as in music can frequently be characterized as ‘emotional’, that does not necessarily imply that the purpose of that communication is to ‘convey emotion’. Present findings strongly suggest that musical expression makes large use of the same emotion-specific patterns of acoustic cues as vocal expression. In both cases, there is a similar redundancy of cue which largely reflects the sound production mechanisms of the voice and musical instruments.