From music, emotions are expressed:

a phenomenological study with university students

Abstract

Man, as a being in the world, has the ability to transform everything that is significant (or not) into rhythmic, harmonic and melodic sets. Music has permeated human making and walking since ancestry. Thus, music has subsidized the development, growth and enabled the confrontation of difficult situations in various social contexts. Thus, this research sought to understand the meaning attributed to classical music – Bourée in E Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach – by psychology students from the perspective of Phenomenological-Existential Psychology. The research is qualitative, descriptive and exploratory, using the phenomenological research method in Psychology. Twenty-two students from the Psychology Course at the Federal University of Amazonas took part. After listening to the music, recorded audio interviews were carried out, departing from a guiding question that suffered possible consequences. The analysis of the interviews was carried out considering the assumptions of the Phenomenological-Existential Psychology of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, with five categories of analysis being built from the participants' statements: The recital begins: immersion in music and sensations; Temporality; Capabilities, skills and attitudes; And I am affected: feelings surface; Other concepts, other connotations, other possibilities. The study points to the use of music to support the teaching/learning process and in Group Dynamics with specific groups