Acoustically Expressing Affect

\textlessp\textgreater\textbfComposers convey emotion through music by co-varying structural cues. Although the complex interplay provides a rich listening experience, this creates challenges for understanding the contributions of individual cues. Here we investigate how three specific cues (attack rate, mode, and pitch height) work together to convey emotion in Bach9s Well Tempered-Clavier (WTC). In three experiments, we explore responses to …