This dataset includes 15 excerpts of the Eroica (Symphony No. 3, Beethoven), played by Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and recorded in the context of the PHENICX EU project, and audio descriptors from the excerpts obtained using the Essentia library.

This material has been used for studying the interrelation between listener characteristics and the perception of emotion in classical music. 

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra has given their explicit approval for this dataset to be made public. 

  • 15 audio files of excerpts of Eroica in 16 bit mono WAV format sampled at 44.1kHz.
  • 15 JSON files with Essentia descriptors.

The PHENICX-emotion dataset is offered free of charge and can be used only for academic research. It cannot be used for any commercial purposes.

Please cite PHENICX-emotion in your research. When PHENICX-emotion is used for academic research, we would appreciate if you cite the following publication: 

Dataset by PHENICX team. Copyright © 2016 PHENICX project, coordinated by Universitat Pompeu Fabra. All Rights Reserved.

This dataset has been created in the context of the PHENICX project, Supported by the European Commission, FP7 (Seventh Framework Programme), STREP project, ICT-2011.8.2 ICT for access to cultural resources, grant agreement No 601166.

You can download the PHENICX-emotion dataset here.

Problems, positive feedback, negative feedback... it is all welcome! Please help us improve PHENICX-emotion by sending your feedback to: [email protected] AND [email protected] In case of a problem report please include as many details as possible.