Researchers have surveyed more than 2,500 people in the United States and China about their emotional responses to these and thousands of other songs from genres including rock, folk, jazz, classical, marching band, experimental, and heavy metal. The upshot? The subjective experience of music across cultures can be mapped within at least 13 overarching feelings: Amusement, joy, eroticism, beauty, relaxation, sadness, dreaminess, triumph, anxiety, scariness, annoyance, defiance, and feeling pumped up. “Imagine organizing a massively eclectic music library by emotion and capturing the combination of feelings associated with each track. That’s essentially what our study has done,” says lead author Alan Cowen, a doctoral student in neuroscience at the University of California, Berkeley. “We have rigorously documented the largest array of emotions that are universally felt through the language of music,” says study senior author Dacher Keltner, a professor of psychology. Cowen translated the data into an interactive audio map, where …