Lindsay’s dissertation, entitled Subtle Semblances of Sorrow: Exploring Music, Emotional Theory, and Methodology, is now available online here! The dissertation explores how emotional theories relate to music, includes a novel database of over 22,000 musical stimuli, describes a series of 7 behavioral studies, and summarizes her vision for future music research.

The chapter titles are listed below. Please contact Lindsay for more information or to hear about her next steps and her new and exciting research ideas.

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Comparing Musical and Psychological Emotion Theories

Chapter 3: The PUMS Database: A Corpus of Previously-Used Musical Stimuli in 306 Studies of Music and Emotion

Chapter 4: Choosing the Right Tune: A Review of Music Stimuli used in Emotion Research

Chapter 5: Assembling Melancholic and Grieving Musical Passages

Chapter 6: Redefining Sad Music: Music’s Structure Suggests at Least Two Sad States

Chapter 7: Melancholic and Grieving Music Express Different Affective States

Chapter 8: People Experience Different Emotions from Melancholic and Grieving Music

Chapter 9: Downstream Pro-Social Tendencies from Melancholic and Grieving Music: An Ethological Perspective

Chapter 10: The Importance of Utilizing Emotional Granularity in Music and Emotion Research

Chapter 11: Conclusions