Originally posted by: gltyrian
Yeah, roberto has a website up with these pieces: http://www.speech.kth.se/~roberto/emotion/
that's the site is also the home for the director musices program made by friberg and sundberg.. i was trying to pin the exact paper where he came up with these results, but wasn't able to nail down an exact paper.. but i did find a presentation he made in summer 2005 that details some of these results:
http://www.s2s2.org/docman/task,doc_download/gid,36/
s2s2.org is his current project i believe..
some additional work is available at our class website: www-scf.usc.edu/~ise575/b/syllabus under week5 bresin's paper.. and director musices stuff under week9..
Okay, so those are two of the papers I've read. I still find his results bizarre. For instance, that he can define as a parameter of "Anger" music a stacatto attack. I can think of instances where a sustained loud attack would sound more angry than a short one. However, he doesn't give a category with Loud and Legato articulation.
I also find it problematic that he uses such obviously culturally situated examples for his test. The mazurka examples especially might make no sense at all to someone who is not familiar with the Western classical tradition. Heck, I studied classical music for 16 years until moving towards contemporary music a little over 2 years ago, and I already have trouble identifying with his emotional dimensions.