2017 Volume 19 Issue 2 Pages 53-65
This paper discusses that the subjective evaluation for the impression of music based on Visual Analog Scale (VAS) and their cluster analysis. 22 healthy people invited as the experiment subjects, one piece of 1/f fluctuation music (“Requiem No.7 Lacrimosa” (Mozart)) is employed as the test piece. All Subjects are asked to listen to the test piece individually. In order to analyze their subjective evaluation (especially impression of music), they are asked to answer the questionnaire on VAS (7 questions). The results show that subjective evaluation values based on the impression (ex. “sad”, “dark”) of requiem have been obtained. Moreover, the box-and-whisker plot of subjective evaluation distribution also has been shown. In addition, it has been discovered that the question based on the similar subjective evaluation belongs to the same cluster.
