1. Perception of Emotion in Music: What is Musical Expressiveness?

1. Summary of the empirical literature and "live" experiment
2. Non-starters: Conventions and artistic intentions
3. Arousal Theory (Robinson): Expressiveness as arousing emotion
4. Problems for Arousal Theory
5. Contour Theory (Davies): Expressiveness as resemblance with emotion
6. Problems for Contour Theory
7. Persona Theory (Levinson): Expressiveness as imagining a person feeling an emotion
8. Problems with Persona Theory
9. Metaphor Theory (Peacocke): Expressiveness as metaphor for emotion

2. Feeling Emotions with Music

1. Mechanisms by which music elicits emotions
2. The case of musical contagion
3. Cognitivism about emotions (Scheler, Tappolet): Emotions are experiences of values
4. The challenge of musical contagion for cognitivism
5. Dialectic: Renouncing or rescuing cognitivism
6. Rescuing cognitivism I: Moods (Carroll, Robinson) and problems
7. Rescuing cognitivism II: Being Moved (Kivy) and problems
8. Rescuing cognitivism III: Imagination (Levinson) and problems
9. Renouncing cognitivism: Mimicry and mirror neurons (Davies) and problems

3. The Panorama