Friday, April 01, 2011

Can music be funny?

In the spirit of today a fragment from New Horizons in Music Appreciation, a program from Radio Station WOOF at the University of Southern North Dakota at Hoople: an early example of how to attract a wider audience to listen to classical music:



With regard to today's question: David Huron (2004) studied audience laughter in live recordings of Peter Schickele's music (One of the presenters in the broadcast above). In that paper he offers a physiological explanation for why listeners respond to specific musical fragments by producing the distinctive "ha-ha-ha" vocalization....

ResearchBlogging.org Huron, D. (2004). Music-engendered laughter: an analysis of humor devices in P.D.Q. Bach Proceedings of the 8th International Conference of Music Perception and Cognition, 700-704.

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2 comments:

  1. mizrachfaithMonday, May 09, 2011

    The first time that I heard a music that implies laughter and even makes me feel so light. Indeed, music could create different emotions unto us, eh.

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  2. DannyNedWednesday, September 21, 2011

    Music can trigger many emotions, it can make you cry or make you happy. As long as you enjoy it! wii spellen branden

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