This latter capacity ‘’to communicate and induce emotional states‘’ has been the subject of intense scientific investigation. Emotional interpretations and experiences of music are extremely common and play a significant role in our appraisals of music. Indeed, whenever emotions are evoked by stimuli, they are combined with appraisals of those stimuli occurring “on multiple levels of processing ranging from automatic and implicit to conscious conceptual or propositional evaluations” (Scherer 2005: 701). This pairing of emotion and evaluation occurs because, from a biological standpoint, stimuli that elicit emotional responses are (or were, at an earlier point in evolutionary history) relevant to the major concerns of the organism (Huron 2005).