Journal Article

Immersive Experience Arousal Process of Vocal Music Language: From Perspectives of “Music” and “lyrics”

Wei, Ying

2025

Overview

Interpersonal interaction through vocal music language has become an important channel for cross-cultural social life. How to skillfully use vocal music language to stimulate the audience’s emotional arousal and trigger their immersive experience has become a research focus in the field of music. At present, the academic research on vocal music language is diversified, and has explored the path of vocal music occurrence and its development direction under specific circumstances. However, the process of immersive experience arousal from the perspective of “music” language and “lyrics” language is a hidden code study. In order to comprehensively consider various styles of vocal music, we selected the music of three different singing styles including folk style singing, bel canto and popular singing as experimental materials to study the arousal process of the audiences’ immersive experience of vocal music language when listening to music. The results indicate that both “music” and “lyrics” language perceptions exert a significantly positive impact on the audience’s emotional arousal and immersive experience, and in addition, arousal plays a significant mediating role between vocal music language and immersive experience. Therefore, by means of clarifying the internal logic of the audience’s immersive experience from the perspectives of “music” and “lyrics” in the vocal music language, this study provides new theoretical insights for the applicable boundary of telepresence in the vocal music field, facilitate operators to design on-the-scene vocal music art environment to convey the emotional connotation of vocal music, and further promote the development of the vocal music field. Plain language summary This paper conducts a study on the arousal process of the audiences’ immersive experience of vocal music language when listening to music through PLS-SEM analysis. The findings indicate that both “music” and “lyrics” language perceptions exert a significantly positive impact on the audience’s emotional arousal and immersive experience, and in addition, arousal plays a significant mediating role between vocal music language and immersive experience. We believe that our study significantly contributes to current literature because it provides new theoretical insights for the applicable boundary of telepresence in the vocal music field: This study aims to clarify the internal logic of the audience’s immersive experience from the perspective of “music” and “lyrics” in the vocal music language through analyzing the path mechanism in a bid to explore the audience’s emotional arousal and flow experience regularities of vocal music, and confirm the existence and applicability of arousal and immersive experience in the vocal music language.

• Publisher: SAGE Publications,SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC,SAGE Publishing
• Subject: Arousal / Audiences / Connotation / Emotions / Experience / Interpersonal relations / Language / Language usage / Listening / Lyrics / Music / Operators / Perceptions / Relevance / Singing / Social life & customs / Vocal music