Latin Music Mood Classification Using Cifras

This article describes the automatic classification of emotions through five novel feature descriptors based on the "cifras" of the songs. A "cifra" is a document that contains the harmonic structure and harmonic progression a song. In order to evaluate the proposed feature sets, we have created a novel database, namely the Latin Music Cifras Mood Database (LMCMD). This database was created manually by the authors by querying different websites for the "cifras" of songs.