Schneider, S.S.SchneiderRaschke, F.F.RaschkeGatzsche, G.G.GatzscheStrohmeier, D.D.Strohmeier2022-03-112022-03-112009https://publica.fraunhofer.de/handle/publica/365309To measure the perceived emotions caused by musical audio signals we propose to use ""Free Choice Profiling"" (FCP) combined with ""Natural Grouping"" (NG). FCP/NG - originally derived from food research and new to the research of music perception - allow participants to evaluate stimuli using own vocabulary. To evaluate the proposed methods, we conducted an experiment in which 16 participants had to assess major-major and minor-minor chord pairs. Unlike one could expect, allowing participants to express their perception freely does not lead to a degeneration of the quality of the data. Instead, clearly interpretable results consistent with music theory and emotional psychology were obtained. These results encourage further investigations, which could lead to a general method for assessing emotions in music.en621006conference paper