This article introduces the notion ofpleasant musical imagery (PMI) for denoting everyday phenomena where people want to cherish music “in their heads.” This account differs from current paradigms for studying musical imagery in that it is not based a priori on (in)voluntariness of the experience. An empirical investigation of the structure and experiential content in 50 persons’ experiences of PMI applied the elicitation interview method. Peer judgments of the interviews helped to bridge a phenomenological investigation of particular experiences with systematic between-subjects analysis. Both structural features of the imagery (e.g., Looseness of structure or Looping) and content features of the imagery (e.g., Embodied evocativeness and Object-directedness) showed significant associations with participants’ individual characteristics, personality, and/or cognitive style. The approach taken suggests a new paradigm for studying musical imagery—one that is based on tracing the interactional and enactive processes of “inner listening.”

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愉悦的音乐意象

本文介绍了令人愉悦的音乐意象（PMI）的概念，用于表示人们想“在脑海中珍惜音乐”的日常现象。此说明与当前研究音乐意象的模式不同，因为它不是基于经验的（非自愿性）先验的。应用启发式访谈法对50人PMI经历的结构和经验内容进行了实证研究。访谈的同行判断有助于将特定经历的现象学研究与系统的受试者间分析联系起来。图像的结构特征（例如，结构或循环的松动）和图像的内容特征（例如，体现的唤起力和对象指向性）都与参与者的个人特征，个性，和/或认知风格。所采用的方法提出了一种研究音乐意象的新范式-一种基于追踪“内在聆听”的互动和活跃过程的范式。