Markus Schedl, Hamid Eghbal-Zadeh, Emilia Gomez, Marko Tkalcic,
"An Analysis of Agreement in Classical Music Perception and Its Relationship to Listener Characteristics"
: Proceedings of the 17th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR), 8-2016
Original Titel:
An Analysis of Agreement in Classical Music Perception and Its Relationship to Listener Characteristics
Sprache des Titels:
Englisch
Original Buchtitel:
Proceedings of the 17th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR)
Original Kurzfassung:
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.