TOWARDS A SEMANTIC DESCRIPTOR OF SUBJECTIVE INTENSITY IN MUSIC
Vegard Sandvold, Perfecto Herrera · 2005
In this paper we present a descriptive study of perceived intensity in popular music. We have designed a taxonomy for the purpose, and created an intensity model based on low-level descriptors extracted from an objective data set, which can reliably predict a category label for the “subjective intensity ” of most popular music recordings. 1.