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https://musicaluniverse.io/
Terrific resource - answer a few questions about your personality, then listen to about 25 music samples. You get to rate each piece on a multi-point scale from "hate it" to "love it." Not much here that sounds like movie music, though there are some classical samples. The idea is to correlate personality types with musical preferences. Would be VERY interesting to see what most of us here tend to like, and how that correlates to not only to our personalities, but preferences in scores and composers.
Here again is the link to the test (I just took the free version):
https://musicaluniverse.io/
Here are my results:
Below is a summary of your scores based on comparisons to 250,000 people in over 100 countries.
Personality Traits
Openness | High (76 to 91st Percentile)
Conscientiousness | Very High (92 to 97th Percentile)
Extraversion | Very High (92 to 97th Percentile)
Agreeableness | Very High (92 to 97th Percentile)
Emotional Stability | High (76 to 91st Percentile)
Musical Preferences
Mellow | Extremely Low (0.1 to 2nd Percentile)
Unpretentious | Very Low (3 to 8th Percentile)
Sophisticated | High (76 to 91st Percentile)
Intense | Average (25 to 75th Percentile)
Contemporary | Average (25 to 75th Percentile)
This is what I would have predicted. My preference in scores is for those that are more musically sophisticated (Williams, Goldsmith) and I get bored easily with "drone" type scores.
Anyone else want to share?
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Some results of the research:
• People high on Openness have the most diverse playlists.
• On average, people high on Openness prefer music that is more complex and sophisticated.
• Jazz musicians and their fans tend to be high on Openness because the moment-to-moment shifts of improvisation is appealing to the yearning for new experiences orientation of the Openness mindset.
• Openness is a sigificant predictor of musical ability in both musicians and non-musicians.
• Science has shown that some of the foremost musical geniuses of the 20th century scored high on Openness, including the jazz saxophonist, John Coltrane.
• On average, people who score high on Extraversion prefer music that is more contemporary and is more energetic and rhythmic7. Vocalists tend to score higher on Extraversion than other personality traits, coinciding with the role of most singers who are “center stage” and in the “spotlight”.
• Jazz musicians are typically low on Conscientiousness.
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Thanks for posting! The personality part of the free test is quite limited, so wouldn't take it as much beyond a pencil sketch of who you are. I might do the paid version at some point, and see how deep it gets.
At least it correctly discerned that music that does not evolve and change over time bores me.
And some of it is really obvious - people who are more open to new experiences have more varied playlists? What a surprise 
Cheese analogies are always welcome.
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I had to stop tonight with this... I'm going to sleep now. :-) I started it, but some questions proved to be just impossible to answer, as there was no indication what was actually examined?
It is just, that if after a while the answers you can choose just leave you no way to answer halfway correctly, like "is the music to listen to more in your native language or not" etc... so WTF? Whose native language is Latin? (And I don't even now if that's the language I most listen to, as most of the music I listen to does not contain words in any language, but obviously some does... is Latin "native tongue" because I understand the language or "foreign language" because it's obviously not my birth language? Did I listen more to English, French, Italian, or German vocals... and how much of it did I understand?
And so I dropped out... this just one example of too many questions I was unable to answer... also, many of the music clips were like.. hmmm... .this sounds like Vivaldi (or whatever)... do I like this because I like Vivaldi (or whoever), or do I dislike it, because it rips off Vivaldi (or whoever?) Tricky... especially, since the clips are short. I mean, Schnittke's 1st Symphony is almost a pastiche at times (but only at times), and I love it, but would I have loved it if somebody had played me a 30 second snippet of it? What if it's the wrong 30 seconds? Very difficult to answer, and so I folded while doing this test. I found the questions not precise enough... or too strenuous to answer tonight. Good night. :-)
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also, many of the music clips were like.. hmmm... .this sounds like Vivaldi (or whatever)... do I like this because I like Vivaldi (or whoever), or do I dislike it, because it rips off Vivaldi (or whoever?) Tricky... especially, since the clips are short. I mean, Schnittke's 1st Symphony is almost a pastiche at times (but only at times), and I love it, but would I have loved it if somebody had played me a 30 second snippet of it? What if it's the wrong 30 seconds? Very difficult to answer, and so I folded while doing this test. I found the questions not precise enough... or too strenuous to answer tonight. Good night. :-)
That was my main objection to this test as well - the music clips were a bit of a "no-win" scenario. I had to keep reminding myself that these were examples of TYPES of music, not SPECIFIC pieces or songs. You have to rate them while thinking - how do I feel about music LIKE this, not this particular piece.
Using the Vivaldi-esque example, I think I rated that as a "kinda like," even though Vivaldi bores me (I agree with the old joke, "Vivaldi didn’t actually compose 500 concertos, he just wrote the same concerto 500 times."). So I had to keep in mind it was a stand-in for most baroque music, some of which I love and some of which I find quite dull. Hence my "kinda like" rating, where if it was actually Vivaldi I would have chosen "mostly dislike."
So I think I get what you are saying
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Using the Vivaldi-esque example, I think I rated that as a "kinda like," even though Vivaldi bores me (I agree with the old joke, "Vivaldi didn’t actually compose 500 concertos, he just wrote the same concerto 500 times."). So I had to keep in mind it was a stand-in for most baroque music, some of which I love and some of which I find quite dull. Hence my "kinda like" rating, where if it was actually Vivaldi I would have chosen "mostly dislike."
So I think I get what you are saying
I even like Vivaldi, real Vivaldi, probably because the first time I ever heard the "Four Seasons" was comparatively late... I already knew Schönberg, Mahler, Beethoven, Wagner, Stockhausen... when one day -- I may have been around thirty -- I heard this beautiful Baroque music I had never, ever heard before, while I was in somebody's car, driving around the country side, and I asked: wow, what is that music? And it was Vivaldi, the "Four Seasons", a piece I had of course heard of and read about, but never actually encountered. I was humbled and to this day, I love this composition (and some other stuff by Vivaldi).
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Personality Traits
Openness | Very High (92 to 97th Percentile)
Conscientiousness | High (76 to 91st Percentile)
Extraversion | High (76 to 91st Percentile)
Agreeableness | Average (25 to 75th Percentile)
Emotional Stability | High (76 to 91st Percentile)
Musical Preferences
Mellow | Average (25 to 75th Percentile)
Unpretentious | Low (9 to 24th percentile)
Sophisticated | Very High (92 to 97th Percentile)
Intense | Low (9 to 24th percentile)
Contemporary | Average (25 to 75th Percentile)
Most of the excerpts, even for music I'm not really "into" like country and jazz, were likable to my ears. There were maybe about three I disliked - one with a singer who had an annoying style, one of the hip-hops, and one of the hard rock selections. (Probably what drove my "Intense" score so low - yet I love intense classical music, film scores, electric dance mixes, etc.) I actually was hoping for an even wider diversity of music in the 25 excerpts. I would have been game for listening to up to 100 excerpts; this was fun.
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I looked at their definition of "Intense:"
Intense music is defined as distorted, loud, aggressive, and not relaxing, romantic, nor inspiring, and were from the classic rock, punk, heavy metal, and power pop music genres.
That makes more sense why I scored low here. But it doesn't take into account the aggressiveness and "not relaxing" aspects of a lot of modernist classical music which I'm quite keen on. Again, this is a cool test, but I think the makers of it should have at least a version of it with maybe 100 excerpts of a more wide-ranging field. (e.g. Penderecki, Indian raga, 1940s big band, 1960s pop/rock, Brubeck, reggae, et al)
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Jun 3, 2020 - 2:19 AM
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Thor
(Member)
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Mine:
Personality Traits
Openness | High (76 to 91st Percentile)
Conscientiousness | Very High (92 to 97th Percentile)
Extraversion | Very High (92 to 97th Percentile)
Agreeableness | Low (9 to 24th percentile)
Emotional Stability | Average (25 to 75th Percentile)
Musical Preferences
Mellow | Average (25 to 75th Percentile)
Unpretentious | Very Low (3 to 8th Percentile)
Sophisticated | High (76 to 91st Percentile)
Intense | Low (9 to 24th percentile)
Contemporary | High (76 to 91st Percentile)
I'm well aware of the "Big 5" personality test (there's even a Norwegian radio show that applies this to various celebrities), although this was a basic version and not quite representative. For example, I'm good at being social and extrovert when needed, but thoroughly enjoy my own company and am basically an introvert with extrovert abilities. So stuff like that needs to be nuanced.
As for the musical preferences, it also needs nuance:
My interest in 'mellow' music might read as average, but it's the type of music I prefer to listen to the most these days. Just not the type of mellow music displayed in the test's music clips. I'm listening to Enya right now, for example.
'Unpretentious' reads as very low, but whereas I tend to hate the kind of country and singer/songwriter stuff played in the clips, I really like straightforward rock'n'roll like Creedence, Elvis, Steppenwolf, you name it. So again, needs nuance.
'Sophisticated' reads high, which is basically correct.
'Intense' reads low, but again -- I hate grunge and that kind of stuff, which is what they played in the clips. On the other hand, Rammstein is one of my favourite bands ever. And I adore heavy psytrance and goa. So this is probably the one that needs the most nuance.
'Contemporary' reads high, which is OK. But I can't really be pigeonholed that way, as I enjoy medieval lute music one day, and contemporary synthpop the next.
Anyways, fun test. Let's hope the data won't be used 'against me' in the future. You never know about these things, even if I clicked 'no' to commercial use.
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By the way, I think my challenge of posting your 144 favourite albums might be a more telling indication of your musical preferences:
https://www.filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=139931&forumID=1&archive=0
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I don't think the test is accurate.
Me neither. It´s clickbait, like so many other "personality tests" out there.
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