An FCT exploratory project assembling a multidisciplinary team aimed to unravel the “cesura”, the unknown relation, between the classification of music excerpts regarding perceived emotions and the associated neural correlates, as measured by functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Ultimately, we aimed to establish the connection between music descriptors and brain activity patterns. Our proposal was based on the idea that fMRI can be used to explore the neural representation of music and its emotional content. We hypothesized that the emotion recognition neural network, which includes emotion-dependent frontal regions (orbitofrontal, ventrolateral and dorsolateral prefrontal), supplementary and pre-supplementary motor areas, and subcortical regions such as the amygdala, hippocampus, and striatum, in coordination with the auditory cortex, contributed to the mapping of music features and evoked emotions.