Get your music evoked emotions tested.

http://www.musicalemotions.org/

I found a very interesting site that tests your music evoked emotions with a Musical Emotion Profile, a fairly short likert scale based test that's results were similar to that of an emotional thermometer. You were supposed to take a piece of music, get comfortable and play the song before taking the test. The song I selected was one of my favorite pieces by Thrice called "Of Dust and Nations"  

Listen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCkdM8DIv2I

Enjoying music very much, and being a musician, I was very eager to see how the test was written, and what kind of results it would produce. It essentially took the emotions and grouped them into nine categories: Wonder, Transcendence, Tenderness, Longing, Peacefulness, Power, Joyful Activation, Inquietude, Sadness, but instead of defining the varying degrees of the individual's score on the test, it just gave a definition for each of the terms.

It won't let me paste the image my score was recorded on since it is a .png but my best estimate is:(1-5 again)

Wonder: 4

Transcendence: 4.6

Tenderness: 3

Longing: 3.3

Peacefulness: 3.2

Power: 5

Joeyful Activation: 2.5

Inquietde: 2

Sadness: 2

While they did lay out a nice chart to show results, it did not give me a interpretation or evaluation about my evoked emotions or trends.. The test simply averaged like emotions, and put them in a bar graph, with definitions of the trait groups below. I was looking for more information.

In conclusion the test. is poor overall. There is zero scientific basis for the results, and no information made available about how results are grouped together. What song you listen to will effect the emotions evoked in individuals considerably. This is not addressed at all. It simply says "If you are interested in knowing more about your deepest emotional reactions to music, take this test while listening to a piece of music that seems of particular emotional interest to you (negative or positive)." For example the song I selected is a very ambient, end of the world epic vibe to it. This probably explains my high score on power and transcendence. If I were to pick a sad song, power is about the last group of emotions that would be evoked. It doesn't really provide much information that could not be attained by simply listening to a song and writing down the emotions you feel. Though being a musician I may over-analyze songs compared to the average listener, or perhaps since I was excited to take the test, my expectations were unreasonably high, and since it didn't meet my expectations I felt as though it was worse then it actually is. Even though it is a site done by the University of Switzerland, I cant help but feel like its someone's high school project.