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. 2009 Oct 16;4(10):e7487. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0007487

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.