THESIS
2014
xi, 42 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm
Abstract
Previous research has shown a strong connection between music emotion and
timbre, and that musical instruments have strong emotional predispositions. This
thesis investigates the effect of reverberation on music emotion, in particular, the effect
of reverberation length and amount. We conducted a listening test to compare the effect
of reverberation on music emotion for eight instrument sounds representing the wind
and bowed string families. We compared these sounds over ten emotions. We found
that reverberation had a strong effect on the emotions Romantic and Mysterious, and
it had a reasonably strong effect on Scary, Sad, Depressed, and Heroic, increasing with hall size and distance from the stage. Interestingly, for Comic, reverberation length
and amount had the reverse effec...[
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Previous research has shown a strong connection between music emotion and
timbre, and that musical instruments have strong emotional predispositions. This
thesis investigates the effect of reverberation on music emotion, in particular, the effect
of reverberation length and amount. We conducted a listening test to compare the effect
of reverberation on music emotion for eight instrument sounds representing the wind
and bowed string families. We compared these sounds over ten emotions. We found
that reverberation had a strong effect on the emotions Romantic and Mysterious, and
it had a reasonably strong effect on Scary, Sad, Depressed, and Heroic, increasing with hall size and distance from the stage. Interestingly, for Comic, reverberation length
and amount had the reverse effect, that is, anechoic tones were judged most Comic.
These results provide a fresh, new perspective for recording engineers. For example,
recording engineers can add strong and long reverberation to emphasize emotions such
as Romantic and Mysterious, while using close-miking bring out the Comic character
of an instrument.
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