Music emotion refers to the emotion induced by music and is a concentrated expression of the value of music. Unlike daily emotional stimulation, music often induces individual happy experiences.

Music emotions can be divided into broad and narrow senses:

1. Musical emotions in a broad sense refer to the emotional impact of musical works on people, which can usually be described by some adjectives, such as: pleasant, Soft, lyrical, passionate, sad, etc.

2. Musical emotion in a narrow sense refers to the expression elements of music works, such as: music intensity, speed, timbre, expression terms, etc.

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Characteristics of musical emotions:

1. The induction of musical emotions is based on the functional connections between sensory, emotional and cognitive areas in the brain. Including the subcortical reward network unique to humans and other animals, such as the nucleus accumbens, amygdala and dopaminergic system, as well as the cerebral cortex with complex cognitive functions at the end of evolution.

2. Negative emotions such as guilt, shame, jealousy, disgust, contempt, embarrassment, anger and fear are rarely experienced in musical emotions. The positive emotional experience brought by music is universal and consistent around the world.

3. The emotional valence of music itself is not enough to determine whether people like a certain piece of music. Music that is sad or mixed with joy and sorrow is also addictive. Negative emotions generated in a musical environment are "safe". Regardless of whether the emotion expressed by the music itself is happy or sad, the emotions induced by music can be pleasant.

4. Musical emotion regulates the activities of almost all limbic and paralimbic structures of the brain, including the hypothalamus, insula and anterior cingulate cortex responsible for arousal of the autonomic nervous system, the hippocampus where memory is formed, and the areas involved in The prefrontal cortex of complex cognitive activity.