Scanning the Dial: The Rapid Recognition of Music Genres

Given brief excerpts of commercially recorded music in one of ten broad genres of music, participants in this study were asked to evaluate each excerpt and to assign it to one of the ten genre labels. It was expected that participants would be good at this task, since they were the very consumers fo...

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Published inJournal of new music research Vol. 37; no. 2; pp. 93 - 100
Main Authors Gjerdingen, Robert O., Perrott, David
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Abingdon Routledge 01.06.2008
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Subjects
Excerpts
Experiments
Musical Classification
Musical Elements
Musical Genres
Recognition
Sound Recordings
Speed
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Summary:Given brief excerpts of commercially recorded music in one of ten broad genres of music, participants in this study were asked to evaluate each excerpt and to assign it to one of the ten genre labels. It was expected that participants would be good at this task, since they were the very consumers for whom much of this music had been created. But the speed at which participants could perform this task, including above-chance categorizations of excerpts as short as 1/4 second, was quite unexpected.
ISSN:0929-8215
1744-5027
DOI:10.1080/09298210802479268