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I propose that both the inner thought and feeling processes (mental and emotional) and the corporeal processes (physiological and psychophysiological) respond to these features of tension found within the pieces in my study, showing a connection to the composer's expressive compositional plan and theorized personal state based on their life's experiences at the time surrounding the writing of their piece. I achieve this by noting measurements of both basic types of bodily responses to tension that are related to the musical features that would induce these kinds of responses. 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I propose that both the inner thought and feeling processes (mental and emotional) and the corporeal processes (physiological and psychophysiological) respond to these features of tension found within the pieces in my study, showing a connection to the composer's expressive compositional plan and theorized personal state based on their life's experiences at the time surrounding the writing of their piece. I achieve this by noting measurements of both basic types of bodily responses to tension that are related to the musical features that would induce these kinds of responses. 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