Abstract
We present a study, carried out on 241 participants, which
investigates on classical music material the agreement of
listeners on perceptual music aspects (related to emotion,
tempo, complexity, and instrumentation) and the relation-
ship between listener characteristics and these aspects. For
the currently popular task of music emotion recognition,
the former question is particularly important when defin-
ing a ground truth of emotions perceived in a given music
collection. We characterize listeners via a range of factors,
including demographics, musical inclination, experience,
and education, and personality traits. Participants rate the
music material under investigation, i.e., 15 expert-defined
segments of Beethoven’s 3
rd
symphony, “Eroica”, in terms
of 10 emotions, perceived tempo, complexity, and num-
ber of instrument groups. Our study indicates only slight
agreement on most perceptual aspects, but significant cor-
relations between several listener characteristics and per-
ceptual qualities.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 17th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR) |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Publication status | Published - Aug 2016 |
Fields of science
- 202002 Audiovisual media
- 102 Computer Sciences
- 102001 Artificial intelligence
- 102003 Image processing
- 102015 Information systems
JKU Focus areas
- Computation in Informatics and Mathematics
- Engineering and Natural Sciences (in general)