Table 7 Main categories of tags
From: Semantic structures of timbre emerging from social and acoustic descriptions of music
Categories | % | Definition | Examples |
|---|---|---|---|
Genre | 36.72 | Musical genre or style | Rock, Alternative, Pop |
Adjective | 12.17 | General category of adjectives | Beautiful, Mellow, Awesome |
Noun | 9.41 | General category of nouns | Love, Melancholy, Memories |
Artist | 8.67 | Artists or group names | Coldplay, Radiohead, Queen |
Locale | 8.03 | Geographic situation or locality | British, American, Finnish |
Personal | 6.80 | Words used to manage personal collections | Seen Live, Favourites, My Radio |
Instrument | 4.83 | Sound source | Female vocalists, Piano, Guitar |
Unknown | 3.79 | Unclassifiable | aitch, prda, < 3 |
Temporal | 2.41 | Temporal circumstance | 80's, 2000, Late Romantic |
Form | 2.22 | Musical form or compositional technique | Ballad, Cover, Fusion |
Commercial | 1.72 | Record label, radio station, etc. | Motown, Guitar Hero, Disney |
Verb | 1.63 | General category of verbs | Chillout, Relax, Wake up |
Content | 1.03 | Emphasis in the message or literary content | Political, Great lyrics, Love song |
Expression | 0.54 | Exclamations | Wow, Yeah, lol |