How often and why mode fails to predict mood in low-arousal classical piano music

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The goals of this paper are the following: (1) To determine the failure rates using Major and Minor as a predictor for positive and negative moods, respectively, (2) To determine the musical features that contributed to making an example a fail case and (3) To determine whether there are significant differences between Natural, Melodic and Harmonic Minor. We addressed these issues by conducting a listening test and manually analysing fail cases among 252 low-arousal classical piano excerpts. We found that Major–Minor categorisation was 90% accurate and high-register Natural Minor excerpts accounted for nearly half of the residual fail cases.

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