Abstract
Shoda et al. (2007) suggested that 'artistic' performances reveal emotional features of the musical pieces, through an experiment in which participants rated their multi-dimensional impressions about the emotional content of some renditions performed with 'deadpan', 'artistic', and 'exaggerated' intentions. As such impressions may depend on the listeners' musical experience, in the present study we investigated the listeners' perceived musical emotions of two groups: one consisted of participants with long musical training (N=41), and the other consisted of participants with low musical experience (N=42). As a result, the fundamental pattern of impression ratings was similar for both groups. However, the suggestion that 'artistic' performances communicate the emotional features of musical pieces particularly applied to the listeners with higher musical training.
