Crowdsourcing audience perspectives on classical music

Program notes of (Western) classical music are usually written by musical experts. As a consequence, program notes information may not be very accessible to audiences which are less familiar with this music genre. To gain more insight in the way in which `uninitiated' audience perceives and describes symphonic concert performances, in this work, we describe the acquisition of a dataset of various forms of timeline commentary through crowdsourcing mechanisms. As we show, different audience categories use different vocabularies, and consider different anchors on the timeline to be important.