2. Emotional Characteristics of Musical Instruments Andrew Horner Chau Chuck Jee

3. Emotional Characteristics of Musical Instruments Goal: To determine the relationship between music emotion and sound colors. In particular, how emotional characteristics of the piano and other instruments vary with pitch and dynamics.

4. Listening Test: – –24 piano tones 8 pitches (c1-8: low to high) 3 dynamic levels (loud, medium, and soft) – –10 emotional categories (e.g., Comic, Happy…). – –Listeners judged all pairwise combinations of tones: “Which is more Comic, 1 or 2?” Larger values indicate pitches and dynamic levels that were significantly more Comic than others (23 is maximum). Piano Emotional Characteristics

6. Emotional Characteristics of Musical Instruments Real-world applications: – –Music Composition/orchestration – –Music Performance – –Recording Engineering – –Instrument-specific Music Emotion Recognition – –Instrument-specific Music Recommendation