This paper surveys the state of the art in automatic emotion recognition in music. Music is
oftentimes referred to as a “language of emotion”[1], and it is natural for us to categorize …

The proliferation of MP3 players and the exploding amount of digital music content call for
novel ways of music organization and retrieval to meet the ever-increasing demand for easy …

Emotions, bodily sensations and movement are integral parts of musical experiences. Yet, it
remains unknown i) whether emotional connotations and structural features of music elicit …

The design of meaningful audio features is a key need to advance the state-of-the-art in
music emotion recognition (MER). This article presents a survey on the existing emotionally …

One especially important feature of metrical music is that it contains periodicities that
listeners' bodily rhythms can adapt to. Recent psychological frameworks have introduced the …

Neuroimaging studies investigating the processing of emotions have traditionally
considered variance between subjects as statistical noise. However, according to …

We present a cross-cultural study on the performance and perception of affective expression
in music. Professional bowed-string musicians from different musical traditions (Swedish folk …

Previous studies have shown that there is a difference between recognized and induced
emotion in music listening. In this study, empathy is tested as a possible moderator between …

This paper investigates the applicability of machine-driven Speech Emotion Recognition
(SER) towards the augmentation of theatrical performances and interactions (eg, controlling …

Background and objectives Music has a unique capacity to evoke both strong emotions and
vivid autobiographical memories. Previous music information retrieval (MIR) studies have …