Emotional Induced By The West Mode And The Chinese Mode

The value of music reflects in the evoked mood. Music mode refers to certain rules in which musical notes are arranged around a central note with pitch distances. As the backbone of melody, music mode bears the syntactic function of connecting notes, thus acting a decisive role in the emotional expression of music. The core element in such mode is the tension of structure based on vocals. Western music-regulating system, based on vocals, harmonicity and the characteristics of tension, established two basic categories in the mode system as "major" and "minor". For half a century, researchers have made a series of discussions on the emotional effects of "major" and "minor" as well as the mechanisms. However, past studies still exist many controversies due to the unstrict control on the structure of tension, fuzzy definitions and single measurement. And, since it is based on the Western system of music and on the basis of population studies in the West, the portability of the theory has been questioned by many.In the Chinese music-regulating system, there are two analogies with the Western "Major" and Minor" respectively. They are "Gong" and Yu". The common ground exists in the mode in which they ride, but they are different in tension. This research based on the similarities and differences between the mode system of China and that of West in the mode and structure tension tries to carry out studies in two aspects. First, the emotional induced effects on the Chinese people by the Western Major and Minor as well as China’s Gong and Yu. Second, the relationships between the mode and four cognitive factors in four levels (familiar experiences, melody anticipation, musical cultural schema and general cognitive features) in the process of emotional induction, in other words, to demonstrate whether an individual is more subject to the bottom-top conscious driven effects or the top-bottom schema driven effects in the process of emotional induction.Based on the above researching purposes, this dissertation designed four studies and seven experiments. Experiment1and2are included in Study1with the focus on the emotional inducing effects by the Western Major and Minor (in Experiement1), and China’s Gong and Yu (in Experiement2). Experiment3and4are included in Study2 with the focus on the relationships between the two cognitive factors (melody anticipation and familiar experiences) and western Major and Minor (in Experiment3) as well as China’s Gong and Yu (in Experiment4) in the emotional inducing process. In Study3. Experiment4and5were designed to demonstrate the relationships between the other two cognitive factors (musical and cultural schema, familiar experiences) and western Major and China’s Gong (in Experiment4) as well as western Minor and China’s Yu (in Experiment5) in the process of emotional induction. In Study4, Experiment7were designed to demonstrate the effects of Major, Minor, Gong and Yu on children’s emotional induction. Conclusions are as the follows:Study1:Major music evoked positive emotional experience, minor music induced the negative emotional experience, music mode type and tension size and emotional valence, arousal, and galvanic skin, refers to the pulse frequency, skin temperature reaction all have important relation. Modes of ancient Chinese music music evoked positive emotional experience, tone of music induced the negative emotional experience, music mode type and emotional valence and skin temperature is an important link of music and emotional arousal, the tension of galvanic skin has significant correlation and refers to the pulse frequency response.Study2:In the major and minor cases, the original tuning scheme does not affect now adjust the mood of the induced effects, familiar with sexual experience after minor into the major can induce effect on major mood certain inhibition, the induced effect of weakening brewed, the participants subjective experience and the physiological reaction of support the above results. In modes of ancient Chinese music and tone of cases, the original tuning scheme does not affect now adjust the mood of the induced effects, but familiar with sexual experience in the modes of ancient Chinese music into correction and primaries after turned into modes of ancient Chinese music, both on fresh emotions produce certain inhibition induced effect, weakening the induced effect of brewed, but inhibitory effect mainly reflects on the emotional experience, didn’t show on the physiological response.Study3:Under the condition of major and modes of ancient Chinese music, the original schema and familiarity experiences of all have no impact on fresh emotions induced effect, the subjects of subjective experience and physiological reactions are supported these results. Under the condition of minor and tone of swaps, the original schema and familiarity experiences of all have no impact on fresh emotions induced effect, the subjects of subjective experience and support a physiological response results.Study4:3-5years old children’s emotion ability type has obvious development characteristic, namely as the rise of the age. the mode of emotional response sensitivity is increasing; Children earlier than on the development of western mode emotional response to the development of Chinese music mode emotional response.To sum up, major and the modes of ancient Chinese music evoked positive emotional experience, and minor’s tone induced the negative emotional experience, emotional experience and physiological reaction intensity under the control of the influence of tension size.In mode induce emotional process, familiar experience factor will be try to emotional reactions produce certain effect, in addition, the cognitive level of development restricts the mode of3-5years old children’s emotion ability.