A context-based emotion-analyzer for teaching tonality in music courses

Aya Ichinose, Shuichi Kurabayashi, Yasushi Kiyoki

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Abstract

This paper presents a context-based emotion-analyzer dedicated for supporting to learn tonality in music courses. This emotion-analyzer realizes a new music retrieval environment to find and visualize music items with considering genre dependent perceptual preference of music. This system generates emotive annotations for music by analyzing tonality along with a timeline. The system helps users to identify music tonality from the viewpoint of emotions. Tonality is a musical system that is constructed by sound elements, such as harmonies and melodies. Change of tonality causes change of impression. This system realizes an automatic time-duration selector that detects repetitions and bridges by analyzing physical and structural music features, such as pitch and tonality. This system enables users to submit emotive keywords as a query for retrieving music according to the impressive changes in each musical piece. This paper shows a prototype system that searches MIDI music files by analyzing them automatically. This paper also shows several experimental results for clarifying the feasibility of the system.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Technology for Education, TE 2011
Pages37-45
Number of pages9
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2011 Dec 1
EventIASTED International Conference on Technology for Education, TE 2011 - Dallas, TX, United States
Duration: 2011 Dec 142011 Dec 16

Publication series

NameProceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Technology for Education, TE 2011

Conference

ConferenceIASTED International Conference on Technology for Education, TE 2011
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityDallas, TX
Period11/12/1411/12/16

Keywords

  • E-learning
  • Multimedia information systems
  • Music course-ware
  • Technology for education
  • Visualization

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Education

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