Emotiogenic factor of various types of classical music (based on cross-cultural research)
The paper studies the influence of two types of classical music compositions (definitely positively perceived by the audience and ambiguously perceived by the audience, provoking mixed feelings) on the emotional state of a person. This is a cross-cultural study that was conducted in Italy and Russia. The holistic approach to the listener, reflecting the psychophysiological reactions and interpretation of the listeners of their experience, has been used as the basis for the experiment. Hardiness has been selected as a variable that is correlated both with the psychophysiological parameters of perception and peculiarities of interpretation of experience. Fragments of the compositions of Vivaldi, Berlioz, Ravel, Mendelssohn were used as the stimulus materials. The conclusions made on the basis of the findings of the research demonstrate that the psychophysiological reactions of listeners changed in the perception of classical music and differed depending on the type of the composition. Statistically significant differences in the perception of musical fragments between Russian and Italians were not found. The study revealed similar associations that Italian and Russian listeners had when listening to the pieces of music; and these associations were close to the meaning of music composition.