Professional musicians listen differently to music

INTRODUCTION: Experience-based adaptation of emotional responses is an important faculty for cognitive and emotional functioning. Professional musicians represent an ideal model in which to elicit experience-driven changes in the emotional processing domain. The changes of the central representation of emotional arousal due to musical expertise are still largely unknown. The aim of the present study was to investigate the electroencephalogram (EEG) correlates of experience-driven changes in the domain of emotional arousal. Therefore, the differences in perceived (subjective arousal via ratings) and physiologically measured (EEG) arousal between amateur and professional musicians were examined. PROCEDURE: A total of 15 professional and 19 amateur musicians listened to the first movement of Ludwig van Beethoven's 5th symphony (duration=∼7.4min), during which a continuous 76-channel EEG was recorded. In a second session, the participants evaluated their emotional arousal during listening. In a tonic analysis, we examined the average EEG data over the time course of the music piece. For a phasic analysis, a fast Fourier transform was performed and covariance maps of spectral power were computed in association with the subjective arousal ratings. RESULTS: The subjective arousal ratings of the professional musicians were more consistent than those of the amateur musicians. In the tonic EEG analysis, a mid-frontal theta activity was observed in the professionals. In the phasic EEG, the professionals exhibited an increase of posterior alpha, central delta, and beta rhythm during high arousal. DISCUSSION: Professionals exhibited different and/or more intense patterns of emotional activation when they listened to the music. The results of the present study underscore the impact of music experience on emotional reactions.

Na 50 Nachlass Arthur Schopenhauer - 'Schopenhauer-Archiv', 962 - Gedanken zur Rezeption Schopenhauers

u.a. Deutsche Zeitung; 100. Geburtstag; Spende für den Schopenhauer-Fonds; Otto von Bismarck; Alexander von Bulgarien; Politik; Jean Paul; Ludwig van Beethoven; Gemälde von Julius Hamel;

Na 50 Nachlass Arthur Schopenhauer - 'Schopenhauer-Archiv', 970 - Dankesschreiben wegen der Übersendung einer Publikation

u.a. Deutsche Zeitung; Ferdinand Fellner von Feldegg; Tierschutz; Ludwig van Beethoven; Gemälde;

Na 50 Nachlass Arthur Schopenhauer - 'Schopenhauer-Archiv', 977 - Dankesschreiben wegen der Übersendung der Gedenkrede anlässlich der Einweihung des Schopenhauer-Denkmals

u.a. Welt als Wille und Vorstellung; Materialismus; Sozialismus; Anarchismus; Ludwig Noiré; Ferdinand Fellner von Feldegg; Deutsche Zeitung; Johannes Brahms; Ludwig van Beethoven; Politik;

Musikerbilder

Enth. Abbildungen von: Leopold Mozart. Joseph Haydn. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Karl Friedrich Zelter. Ludwig van Beethoven. Konradin Kreutzer. Robert und Clara Schumann. Richard Wagner

The Kneisel collection : for violin & piano : selections from the masters, old and new /

Principally arrangements.

A graduate piano recital

The extended program notes include historical background on the composers and pieces being performed, as well as the analytical form regarding the works: Variations on "Ah vous dirai-je-maman," K. 265 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Sonata in C minor, op. 13 "Pathétique," by Ludwig van Beethoven; Consolation No. 3 and Funerailles by Franz Liszt; Fantasie in F minor, op. 49 by Frédéric Chopin.

Kloster Kamp : seine Entwicklung bis zum Anfang des XIV. Jahrhunderts.

Thesis (doctoral)--Universitat Marburg.

Recordando a Luís van Beethoven.

Para conmemorar el ciento cincuenta aniversario de la muerte del músico, se ofrece un modelo de charla musical audiovisual , tal como gustaría que pudiera realizarse en las aulas: se ha procurado conectar los momentos importantes de su vida y de los sucesos históricos con diapositivas de obras de arte, que clarifican y complementan el relato biográfico de Beethoven.

Erinnerung an L. van Beethoven in seinem 16. Jahre, Rheingasse No. 934 zu Bonn 1786

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Erinnerung an L. van Beethoven in seinem 16. Jahre, Rheingasse No. 934 zu Bonn 1786

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Hofansicht des Hauses Bonngasse 20 mit dem Hintergebäude, welches in seinem ersten und im Dachgeschoss von der Familie Johann van Beethovens 1770 bewoht war. - Im Dachgeschoss des Hinterhauses ist das Geburtszimmer Ludwigs van Beethoven

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Wiener Gedenkblatt zur Feier des 100sten Geburtstages L. van Beethoven's; Dezember 1870

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Monument élevé à L. van Beethoven à Bonn

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Monument élevé à L. van Beethoven à Bonn

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