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January 1, 1993Contemporary Music Review

Associationism and musical soundtrack phenomena

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Overview

This article explores how music impacts film meaning through associationism and experimental approaches.

Key Points

  • The aim is to explore how musical soundtracks influence the interpretation of films based on associative meanings.
  • Three experiments conducted to investigate the relationship between music and film meaning.
  • Experiment 1 used simple materials to measure individual affective meanings.
  • Experiments 2 and 3 employed more complex materials measuring multiple affective and denotative meanings.
  • All experiments showed a direct influence of musical meaning on film meaning.
  • Musical and film information independently activated associations of affect and denotation.
  • Meaning is determined by the total associations generated at any given time.

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Annabel J. Cohen (1993) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69db535e498b35d3e6a3cce4https://doi.org/10.1080/07494469300640421
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