Genre, Tempo & Mood

  • genre: listeners recognize genres in 250 ms (Gjerdingen)

    • suggests genre-detection may be possible using frequency domain analysis

    • implies music web-crawlers may need only small music samples

  • tempo detection; several good algorithms available (e.g. Large)

  • foreground/background

    • magnitude of dynamic asymmetry correlates with degree of backgroundedness (Huron, 1991, 1992)

  • mood