Various audiences and listening situations – emotional effects 

Music listening can have a strong emotional effect on an audience, and this is depending on several individual and environmental factors. The type of music, if the music is live or recorded and the listeners’ familiarity with the music are factors of importance for these results. In the Swedish project “Performace Evaluations” we have gathered data from different kinds of audiences: school children, adult and elderly listeners. In the findings we see that the emotional response to classical music varies by type of audience and if the music is live or recorded. Those findings together with a historical exposé on how audiences have changes for 2500 years will be the focus on this presentation.