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Sweet Anticipation: Music and the Psychology of Expectation

'Sweet Anticipation' describes a set of psychological mechanisms and illustrates how these mechanisms work in the case of music. It proposes that emotions evoked by expectation involve five functionally distinct response systems including: reactive responses; tension responses; and appraisal responses.

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adult
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long · 462 pages

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