Affective analysis of musical chords

Author

Kukreti, Madhur

fYear

2015

fDate

28-30 July 2015

Firstpage

379

Lastpage

385

Abstract

Music invokes emotions in humans and hence sentiment extraction in music has been researched for a long time. This paper focuses on 2 research goals (RGs): RG1: Identifying and analyzing emotions associated with different musical chords. RG2: Suggesting a technique to compute Evaluation, Potency and Activity (EPA) [31] values for musical chords. For RG1 a user study is conducted wherein 30 people are asked to name a song under two emotional categories - “Happiness” and “Sadness”. Chord progression of each song is determined using the Chordify Web service and the frequency of occurrence of the chords under the two emotional categories is calculated and the trends are analyzed. For RG2, EPA values for chords are computed by utilizing the results of RG1 to calculate the probability of chord, given an emotion Pr(Chord|Emotion). This data is fed into the proposed formula to determine EPA values associated with different chords. Thereafter, application of these results to existing sentiment extraction models is suggested.

Keywords

Web services; emotion recognition; graphical user interfaces; information retrieval; music; Chordify Web service; EPA values; chord occurrence frequency; chord probability; chord progression; emotion analysis; emotion identification; evaluation-potency-and-activity; happiness-emotional category; musical chords; research goals; sadness-emotional category; sentiment extraction models; Computational modeling; Databases; Feature extraction; Probabilistic logic; Rhythm; Web services; Affective computing; Computer generated music; Emotion recognition; Music information retrieval; Sentiment analysis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Science and Information Conference (SAI), 2015

Conference_Location

London

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SAI.2015.7237171

Filename

7237171