Sentence examples for expressive chords from inspiring English sources

With regards to musical expression, we hypothesized that SCRs elicited by the expressive chords would elicit stronger SCRs than the non-expressive chords, and that the SCR effect of unexpected chords (i.e., SCRs to expected chords subtracted from SCRs to unexpected chords) would be larger in the expressive than in the non-expressive condition.

Interestingly, when comparing all expressive chords to all non-expressive chords, the N5 was larger for expressive chords (Figure 5).

It is probable that this increased loudness of the expressive chords led to the increased SCR (as well as to the increased N100 amplitude to expressive chords).

The expressive chords elicited a more phasic SCR which was stronger than the SCR to non-expressive chords, the SCR amplitude being maximal at around 2.5 seconds.

In addition to the larger N5 elicited by expressive compared to the non-expressive chords (see above), the expressive chords also elicited an increased negativity over central electrodes in the time window from 80 to 120 ms (this effect is presumably an increased N100 due to the fact that the critical chords were usually played more loudly in the expressive condition, see also Discussion).

Note that, originally, the expressive chords were all slightly unexpected chords as arranged by the composer (and these original versions with unexpected chords were the ones played by the pianists).

The SCRs to all chords played with expression were larger compared to the SCRs to all non-expressive chords.

In 16 (out of 20) participants the difference in SCRs between very unexpected and expected chords was larger for the expressive than for the non-expressive chords, but only 9 participants showed this effect of expression for the difference between unexpected (original) and expected chords.

However, the N5 potentials clearly differed between all expressive and all non-expressive chords (Figure 5).

The reason for this modulation is presumably that chords played with expression contain more meaning information (because they contain information about the emotions and the intentions of the performer, [27]), resulting in larger N5 potentials for expressive than for non-expressive chords.

No significant changes in the inter-heartbeat interval (IBI) for the three different types of chords were observed (as in a recent study by Steinbeis et al. [18]), and no differences in IBIs were measured between expressive and non-expressive chords.