1. II.2 Psychological Reality
II.2.2 (M Sept 18) Emotions and Music

2. „Oh, my darling Clementine“
(Alf Gabrielsson 1995, University of Uppsala)

3. number stars in galaxy = 100 000 000 000 ≈ 1.00 1011
≈ 1.59 1012
13 tones
≈ 2.23 1036
72 tones
number stars in galaxy = ≈ 1.00 1011

4. ...+ 2024.x5 + 216.x4 + 26.x3 + 5.x2 + x + 1 = cycle index polynomial
x^144 + x^ x^ x^ x^ x^ x^ x^ x^ x^135 +
x^ x^ x^ x^ x^130 +
x^ x^ x^ x^126 +
x^ x^ x^ x^122 +
x^ x^ x^119 +
x^ x^ x^116 +
x^ x^ x^113 +
x^ x^ x^110 +
x^ x^ x^107 +
x^ x^ x^104 +
x^ x^102 +
x^ x^100 +
x^ x^98 +
x^ x^96 +
x^ x^94 +
x^ x^92 +
x^ x^90 +
x^ x^88 +
x^ x^86 +
x^ x^84 +
x^ x^82 +
x^ x^80 +
x^ x^78 +
x^ x^76 +
x^ x^74 +
x^ x^72 + …. …
x x x3 + 5.x2 + x + 1 = cycle index polynomial
≈ 2.23  1036

5. M.M. ♩ = 200 neapolitan cluster
Stefan Koelsch et al. (Leipzig 2003): Electric Brain Responses Reveal Gender Differences in Music Processing
Event Related brain Potentials (ERP)
M.M. ♩ = 200
maxima
music laypersons
neapolitan
cluster

6. Hellmuth Petsche et al. (Vienna 1986-1998): EEG and Thinking
24 #
28 #
persons with music education
W. A. Mozart:
Jagdquartett
KV 458,
1st mov.

7. Peter Tschaikowsky (1840-1893)

8. Adolf Wölfli

10. Vincent van Gogh ( )
Paris 1887/88

11. Godehard Oepen
SPECT
mescaline L R

12. Tom Harrell

13. Where and how are emotions connected to music?
corpus callosum
Consonant and dissonant intervals!

14. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1514-1594
Missa papae marcelli,
kyrie
Johann Sebastian Bach
Wohltemperiertes Klavier I,
Praeludium 2
Thelonious Monk
Monk Alone in San Francisco,
You took the words right out of my heart

15. gradus ad parnassum
Johann Joseph Fux (1725)
J. J. Fux

16. Guerino Mazzola und Heinz-Gregor Wieser

17. hippocampus

18. Disso nance

19. Conso nance

20. event V(event) = (S/Sq, S/Sa, S/Sb) = vigilance vector   a b4 8 14 40
50 Hz
power   a b
frequency
V(event)  a b
V(event) = (S/Sq, S/Sa, S/Sb)
= vigilance vector

21. Jonathan Winson: Hippocampal Gate Hypothesis
Elton John
and Diana
candle in the wind
Music is a key to unconscious emotional contents

22. Result
Consonant and dissonant intervals and associated harmonic or contrapuntal structures evoke a hippocampal process, which activates a gateway to mainly subconscious memory contents. In other words, Winson’s gate hypothesis of the hippocampal formation must also be stated in the sense of the existence of a musicogenic key to the gate.
This thesis does not mean that music generates emotions, it only retrieves and reactivates them from a memory database. So it acts on the brain like a drug and enables emotional effects. In this metaphor, the ‘chemical formula’ of the „music drug“ corresponds to the involved musical structure.
Music is a key to the subconscious emotional contents