Context is one of the key parameters influencing music emotion perception in listeners. The current study systematically investigates the influence of immediate intrinsic musical context on the perception of music-evoked emotions. Four dominantly happy and four dominantly sad Hindustani classical music excerpts were chosen and rated for perceived emotions in two types of listening experiments. In the first experiment, baseline ratings of these excerpts were collected from general participants to establish the emotions perceived without any influence. In the second experiment, pairs of excerpts were presented in succession, without any breaks, and rated continuously for perceived emotions. The perceived emotion responses for the second excerpt in the pair were considered for possible influence by the preceding music excerpt. The baseline and influenced ratings were compared to understand the effect of immediate intrinsic musical context—the first excerpt in this case—on emotion perception. Significant differences in terms of intensity of perceived emotions were found between baseline and influenced conditions for both happy and sad excerpts, either in the form of changes in perceived dominant emotion or in perceived nuance, and this phenomenon was termed intra-contextual influence. The results reflect the importance of immediate intrinsic musical context on emotion perception of musical excerpts and might be used to understand music semantics better.

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探索音乐情感感知中的语境内影响


上下文是影响听众音乐情感感知的关键参数之一。目前的研究系统地调查了直接内在音乐背景对音乐诱发情绪感知的影响。在两种类型的聆听实验中，选择了 4 首 5 首快乐和 4 首悲伤的印度斯坦古典音乐选段，并根据感知情绪进行了评分。在第一个实验中，从普通参与者那里收集了这些摘录的基线评分，以确定不受任何影响的情况下感知到的情绪。在第二个实验中，成对的摘录连续呈现，没有任何中断，并针对感知到的情绪进行连续评分。对中第二段的感知情绪反应被认为可能受到前一段音乐的影响。比较基线和影响评级，以了解直接内在音乐背景（在本例中为第一段摘录）对情绪感知的影响。在快乐和悲伤摘录的基线条件和影响条件之间发现感知情绪强度的显着差异，无论是以感知主导情绪的变化形式还是感知到的细微差别的形式，这种现象被称为语境内影响。结果反映了直接内在音乐背景对音乐选段情感感知的重要性，可用于更好地理解音乐语义。