... cross-culturally—that music can depict, allude to, and represent (a) the auditory patterns com-monly associated with emotions such as anger, joy, and sadness; and (b) the specific vocal and physical ... musicalpieces contain different combinations of acoustic and structural vari-ables—which are generally classifiable among the psychophysical,“ecological,” and “collative” variables with “arousal ... term “musical emotions;” the real-ization (reached by Plato, Darwin, and Gurney, among others) that music can, at least on rare occasions and in special settings, haveprofound emotional or quasi-emotional...