"The idea of everything joy-joy, prosperity-prosperity, well-well.
Not so surprisingly, at the end of the study, Vessel and the research team found that participants' formulated responses to the art that "moved" them varied greatly in intensity, characterized by everything from joy, awe and pleasure to sadness, disgust and confusion.
The audience arrives in happy anticipation; then it greets everything with joy.
"A piece of shrapnel comes screaming out of the sky, and irreversibly it overturns lives, reducing four to three, changing everything, ending joy and dreams," Mr. Darnton writes.
As Adam and Eve's story unfolds, for example, angels register everything from joy to skepticism to alarm.
The mature Miles Davis always reached for some Armstrong when he wanted to go to the deepest part of the music, where everything from joy to gloom had equal presence.
This, too, came unexpectedly; he himself had "never thought of such a thing, such a solution through violence," and he described his reaction in almost the same words: "I lost everything, all joy in my work, all initiative, all interest; I was, so to speak, blown out".
Weddings bring out everything from joy and excitement to stress and all out war.
At any one time, depending on what the music beneath the sample is doing, those four words 'In my arms, baby, yeah", culled from Boy Meets Girl's 'Waiting For A Star To Fall' and repeated throughout, are able to communicate everything from joy to yearning to lust and even a kind of maternal sympathy.
"He's a very fun character to play, because he has so much joy in everything – everything is a game to him.
