[Study of the interaction between mood and music experience under its musical and clinical psychological aspects]

An exploratory, non-hypothesis-based experiment set out to discover to what extent the assessment of music is influenced by the basic mood (hypomanic versus depressive) of the listener. Distinct differences became apparent on all four dimensions extracted from a polarity list, independent of the structural nature of the piece of music assessed. This result was discussed primarily with regard to the necessity of making the construct "experience of music" empirically accessible to non-aesthetic lines of inquiry, for example in music therapy.