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I have just finished the initial processing stage of the my thesis testing results. The conclusion? My thesis was a resounding success! The goal of the tests was to demonstrate that my system could take a musical work, automatically modify a series of musical parameters (tempo, mode, articulation, etc), which would result in a change to the perceived emotionality of the work as judged by listeners. For example, by increasing the tempo, changing to it to major mode etc, does it make the work more upbeat and cheerful? For every music piece selected, and every intended emotion type, the system was remarkably successful. Given the finicky nature of emotion studies this result is both unusual and outstanding.