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On the Interrelation between Listener Characteristics and the Perception of Emotion in Classical Orchestra Music
| Title | On the Interrelation between Listener Characteristics and the Perception of Emotion in Classical Orchestra Music |
| Publication Type | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication | 2017 |
| Authors | Schedl, M. , Gómez E. , Trent E. , Tkalcic M. , Zadeh H. E. , & Martorell A. |
| Journal Title | IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing |
| ISSN | 1949-3045 |
| Abstract | This study deals with the strong relationship between emotions and music, investigating three main research questions: (RQ1) Are there differences in human music perception (e.g., emotions, tempo, instrumentation, and complexity), according to musical education, experience, demographics, and personality traits?; (RQ2) Do certain perceived music characteristics correlate (e.g., tension and sadness), irrespective of a particular listener’s background or personality?; (RQ3) Does human perception of music characteristics, such as emotions and tempo, correlate with descriptors extracted from music audio signals? To investigate our research questions, we conducted two user studies focusing on different groups of subjects. We used web-based surveys to collect information about demographics, listening habits, musical education, personality, and perceptual ratings with respect to perceived emotions, tempo, complexity, and instrumentation for 15 segments of Beethoven’s 3rd symphony, “Eroica”. Our experiments showed that all three research questions can be affirmed, at least partly. We found strong support for RQ2 and RQ3, while RQ1 could be confirmed only for some perceptual aspects and user groups. |
| preprint/postprint document | http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7840033/ |
| Final publication | 10.1109/TAFFC.2017.2663421 |
Additional material:
PHENICX-emotion: this dataset includes 15 excerpts of the Eroica (Symphony No. 3, Beethoven), played by Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and recorded in the context of the PHENICX EU project, and audio descriptors from the excerpts obtained using the Essentia library. :
http://mtg.upf.edu/download/datasets/phenicx-emotion
