Fig. 3: Historical periods of emotion-related adjectives when describing music in English books from 1800 to 2000.
From: How have music emotions been described in Google books? Historical trends and corpus differences
a the adjusted frequencies of positive and negative adjectives when describing music from 1800 to 2000. Error bands indicate the standard error (3-year smoothing). b and c are the adjusted frequencies of the top five positive and negative adjectives when describing music from 1800 to 2000 (loess smoothing). Source: Own elaboration.
