Schedl, MarkusGómez Gutiérrez, Emilia, 1975-Trent, Erika S.Tkalčič, MarkoEghbal-Zadeh, HamidMartorell Domínguez, Agustín2020-02-182020-02-182017Schedl M, Gómez E, Trent E, Tkalcic M, Eghbal-Zadeh H, Martorell A. On the interrelation between listener characteristics and the perception of emotion in classical orchestra music. IEEE Trans Affect Comput. 2017;9(4):507-25. DOI: 10.1109/TAFFC.2017.26634211949-3045http://hdl.handle.net/10230/43629This 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.application/pdfeng© 2017 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TAFFC.2017.2663421info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TAFFC.2017.2663421Emotion perception in musicClassical musicAudio analysisPersonalityUser studyAgreement and correlation in music perceptioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess