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Synergistic tension in the music and lyrics of late-Romantic choral songs

2025-02-28

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<p>Songs intimately combine two defining human capacities: music and language. As a song unfolds, interconnected musical and linguistic elements such as dissonant chords and evocative words combine to generate fluctuating patterns of tension and relaxation, with associated predictive expectations that shape aesthetic and emotional experiences. However, how these patterns integrate across both domains to produce a...

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DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/47wy9_v1

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