Music & Science

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Volume 6

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Volume 6, Autumn 2023

Editor’s note

Kelly Jakubowski (p. 1)

The role of lyrics in a listener’s experience of preferred music

Sarah Ayub (p. 2-11)

Using personality to predict the content of ‘feel good’ playlists

Paige Denning (p. 12-25)

The effects of background music and musical sophistication on cognitive task performance

Lucy Irving (p. 26-41)

LGBTQ+ people’s experiences of queer music and music activities in education: A thematic analysis

Kiran Johnson (p. 42-82)

An explorative study of young people’s perception of their emotional relationship to music during the first two years of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Molly Knox (p. 83-98)

The impact of listening contexts on felt emotions: A study of Christian worship music

Menglin Luo (p. 99-110)

Do programme notes influence listening experiences?

Menglin Luo, Tiffany Mok, Alicia Sher, Guoyu Wang, & Zoe Solomon (p. 111-122)

The effects of instrumentation and musicianship on working memory while listening to background music

Liberty Richardson (p. 123-131)

Tampering with the Well-Tempered Clavier: Effects of cue manipulations on conveyed emotions in real music

Joshua L. Schlichting, Anoushka Pluwak, & Henry Saunders (p. 132-140)

An investigation on emotional change before versus after music worship on Sunday service and whether such emotional alteration varies between people with versus without a divine encounter

Hongdi Wang (p. 141-149)

The effect of convolution reverberation length on individuals’ felt emotional response to unfamiliar piano excerpts

Oliver Wigzell (p. 150-157)

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Durham Undergraduate Research in Music & Science is published by the Durham University Music Department (Durham, UK).

References to any of this work in other student projects or publications should be accompanied by appropriate citations and bibliographic entries, for instance:

Ayub, S. (2022). The role of lyrics in a listener’s experience of preferred music. Durham Undergraduate Research in Music & Science, 6, 2-11.