Table 1. Self-Selected Musical Excerpts.
Title | Composer/ Artist | Genre | Considered Pleasurable | Considered Neutral |
Canon in D | Pachelbel | Classical | P1 | P10 |
Clair de Lune | Debussy | Classical | P2 | P22 |
Adagio for Strings | Barber | Classical | P3 | P5 |
Adagio for Strings | Barber | Classical | P4 | P17 |
Requiem – Lacrimosa | Mozart | Classical | P5 | P3 |
Second Symphony | Beethoven | Classical | P6 | P24 |
New World Symphony | Dvorak | Classical | P7 | P18 |
Moonlight Sonata | Beethoven | Classical | P8 | P4 |
Swan Lake | Tchaikovsky | Classical | P9 | P1 |
Romeo and Juliet | Prokofiev | Classical | P10 | P6 |
Piano Concerto 2 | Shostakovich | Classical | P11 | P14 |
Fifth Symphony | Shostakovich | Classical | P12 | P15 |
Symphonie Fantastique | Berlioz | Classical | P13 | P20 |
Pines of Rome | Respighi | Classical | P14 | P11 |
Second Symphony | Mahler | Classical | P15 | P23 |
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini | Rachmaninoff | Classical | P16 | P19 |
Morceaux de Fantasies | Rachmaninoff | Classical | P17 | P26 |
Elegy | Elgar | Classical | P18 | P7 |
Claressence | Holland | Jazz | P19 | P8 |
Shine on You Crazy Diamond | Pink Floyd | Rock | P20 | P21 |
Nyana | Tiesto | House | P21 | P16 |
Hardstyle Disco | Biomehanika | Trance | P22 | P13 |
Horns of a Rabbit | Do Make Say Think | Post-Rock | P23 | P9 |
Lincolnshire Posy | Grainger | Folk | P24 | P25 |
Jamedaran | Alizadeh | International | P25 | P12 |
Vicious Delicious | Infected Mushroom | Psychedelic Trance | P26 | P2 |
Excerpts used in the study, including title, composer, and genre, are presented in Table 1. To account for psychoacoustical differences between self-selected chill-inducing stimuli, each excerpt was used once as an experimental and once as a control stimulus. In other words, each excerpt was matched with one participant who considered it pleasurable and one who considered it neutral, as indicated in the last two columns.