Color, Music, and Emotion: Bach to the Blues.

ABSTRACT: When people make cross-modal matches from classical music to colors, they choose colors whose emotional associations fit the emotional associations of the music, supporting the emotional mediation hypothesis. We further explored this result with a large, diverse sample of 34 musical excerpts from different genres, including Blues, Salsa, Heavy metal, and many others, a broad sample of 10 emotion-related rating scales, and a large range of 15 rated music-perceptual features. We found systematic music-to-color associations between perceptual features of the music and perceptual dimensions of the colors chosen as going best/worst with the music (e.g., loud, punchy, distorted music was generally associated with darker, redder, more saturated colors). However, these associa

SUBMITTER: Whiteford KL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6240980 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature