Expirience of musical novelty

Musical novelty as experience, is a feeling

of discovery appearing when a new melodic structure

is encountered: the feeling is similar in kind to

feelings of finding something valuable(a mental treasure) which in brain neurochemistry is interpreted as reward(search and reward).

The musical novelty is opposed conceptually to musical

nostalgia where an old memory is evoked by musical

piece structure or content, while novelty creates a new

linking to current environment("listening to a song for the first time").