TenseMusic: An automatic prediction model for musical tension. by Alice Vivien Barchet, Johanna M Rimmele, Claire Pelofi

“…The algorithm was optimized using Lasso regression to best predict behavioral tension ratings collected on 38 Western classical musical pieces. Its performance was then tested by assessing the correlation between the predicted tension and unseen continuous behavioral tension ratings yielding large mean correlations between ratings and predictions approximating r = .60 across all pieces. …”
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