The BRECVEMA model of musical emotions and theories of embodied cognition: a practice-based approach including an Experimental Music Theatre Composition Portfolio

Jan, Oli Chun-Yang (2024) The BRECVEMA model of musical emotions and theories of embodied cognition: a practice-based approach including an Experimental Music Theatre Composition Portfolio. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Abstract

This thesis follows the framework of the BRECVEMA model proposed by Juslin (2008, 2010, 2019) in investigating the emotive effects and embodied aspects of music perception. It is structured according to the categories proposed in the model. Thus, each chapter or section will discuss a mechanism in the framework.

I attempt to do develop the discussion in three approaches: the theoretical, the analytical, and the practical. The theoretical approach will review relevant literature in fields of study such as aesthetics, phenomenology, linguistics, cognitive science, neuroscience, and biology. The analytical approach will look at existing EMT (experimental music theatre) pieces and explore how the mechanisms work in these pieces. The practical approach will, at the end of each chapter or section on the mechanisms, discuss my own composition of EMT pieces that are composed on the basis of the mechanisms and relevant theories. In doing so, I seek to present a practicebased research methodology that can have contribution to the topic by demonstrating a mutually beneficial relation between theory and practice, where the former provides bases for the latter, and the latter produce examples of extended interpretation, concrete implementation, and complex interaction for the former.

• Item Type: Thesis (PhD)
• Qualification Level: Doctoral
• Subjects: B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology; M Music and Books on Music > M Music
• Colleges/Schools: College of Arts & Humanities > School of Culture and Creative Arts > Music
• Supervisor's Name: Heile, Professor Björn, Pollick, Professor Frank and Bachmann, Dr. Michael
• Date of Award: 2024
• Depositing User: Theses Team
• Unique ID: glathesis:2024-84234
• Copyright: Copyright of this thesis is held by the author.
• Date Deposited: 15 Apr 2024 11:10
• Last Modified: 16 Apr 2024 11:20
• Thesis DOI: 10.5525/gla.thesis.84234
• URI: https://theses.gla.ac.uk/id/eprint/84234

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