Despite a growing literature suggesting that the lyrics of music may have an emotional effect, there are as of yet no studies examining which elements of lyrics influence emotional experience. The present study explored the emotional effect of lyrics sung without a melodic accompaniment, examining whether the vocal expression or the semantic content of the lyrics had a greater influence on emotional state. A sample of 170 participants were presented four variants of sung lyrics, representing all possible combinations of vocal expression (happy; sad) and semantic content (happy; sad) condition, with emotional state being measured using the Brief Mood Introspection Scale (BMIS) following each presentation. A 2 × 2 repeated-measures analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) revealed that, after controlling for familiarity with the song, both the emotional valence of the vocal expression and the semantic content influenced emotional experience, though the vocal expression did so to a greater magnitude. Therefore, the vocal expression of lyrics may have the dominant effect on emotions, though the semantic content still has a minor influence.

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比较歌词的语义内容和声音表达的情感影响


尽管越来越多的文献表明音乐的歌词可能具有情感影响，但到目前为止还没有研究研究歌词的哪些元素会影响情感体验。本研究探讨了在没有旋律伴奏的情况下演唱歌词的情感影响，研究了人声表达或歌词的语义内容是否对情绪状态有更大的影响。向 170 名参与者的样本展示了四种演唱歌词的变体，代表了声音表达 （happy; sad） 和语义内容 （happy; sad） 状况的所有可能组合，在每次演讲后使用简短情绪内省量表 （BMIS） 测量情绪状态。协方差的 2 × 2 重复测量分析 （ANCOVA） 显示，在控制了对歌曲的熟悉程度后，声音表达的情感效价和语义内容都会影响情绪体验，尽管声音表达的影响幅度更大。因此，歌词的声乐表达可能对情绪产生主导作用，尽管语义内容的影响仍然很小。