Timeline for Why are minor chords perceived as melancholic?
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| Oct 11, 2021 at 23:25 | comment | added | CriglCragl | This discussion from the 12tone Youtube channel on 'You' re playing Bach wrong' youtu.be/QEjANevZVfw & the emergence of modern musical scales, is fascinating | |
| Sep 11, 2021 at 0:09 | comment | added | Kevin | Re changing to related keys: You don't even need to go to a related key, you can just go up a semitone (which is nearly on the opposite side of the circle of fifths, and makes almost no sense from a "traditional" music theory perspective) and it'll still sound reasonable anyway because it's "just" one semitone. | |
| Sep 10, 2021 at 23:04 | comment | added | armand | "yet it occurs in parrots, perhaps because they (like humans, and unlike monkeys) are vocal learners" interesting. We convey emotions through voice tones, and it's part of the social ability that makes us so strong as a species. So maybe the identification of certain tones with melancholy is a hardwired evolutionary trait like interpreting facial expressions... | |
| Sep 10, 2021 at 20:32 | history | edited | CriglCragl | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Added additional link on music from physics
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| Sep 10, 2021 at 15:57 | comment | added | CriglCragl | Feedback on a downvote is always appreciated. | |
| Sep 10, 2021 at 15:53 | comment | added | CriglCragl | @armand: 'Spontaneity and diversity of movement to music are not uniquely human' sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982219306049 | |
| Sep 10, 2021 at 6:29 | comment | added | armand | I wonder if the fact of "spontaneously" dancing to music isn't a learned behavior. | |
| Sep 10, 2021 at 3:32 | history | answered | CriglCragl | CC BY-SA 4.0 |