Table 1.

Classical music pieces used as stimuli in our experiment.

Piece	Composer	Performer	Targeted affective state	Duration (s)
Prelude Opus 32, Number 5	Sergei Rachmaninoff	Sergei Rachmaninoff	High valence, low arousal changing to high arousal	127
Étude Opus 10, Number 3 in E major	Frédéric Chopin	Murray Perahia	Low valence, Low arousal changing to high arousal	150
Variations sérieuses Opus 54 (on a theme in D minor)	Felix Mendelssohn	Benjamin Frith	Neutral valence, Changing arousal from low to high and back to low	170
Piano Sonata number 4, Opus 7, in E-flat major (the Grand Sonata)	Ludwig van Beethoven	Dieter Zechlin	Low valence changing to high valence, neutral arousal	158