Monday, October 17, 2011

Sad Songs

Where does get his sad sad music? And who has to ask top songs a composer or a cognitive psychologist?  Scientific American reported in a recent study at Tufts University, which is  probably the top songs experimental gain wide acceptance, albeit vague Sad Songs idea that Sad Songs minor third interval (two fields by a full sound and separated a semitone) Sadness transfers in speech as in song.  From this article in Scientific American, Ferris Jabr:         Almost everyone thinks, "Green sleeves" is a sad song, but why? In addition to the melancholy lyrics, because the melody is a prominent music New Songs called a minor third construct that used the music to the sadness at least the 17th Century to express. Emotional impact of the minor third is closely related to popular opinion, bound, at least for Western music, songs in major (such as "Happy Birthday") are usually written Sad Songs optimistic, while those who think in a minor key (by The Beatles top songs "Eleanor Rigby ") tend to be sore.

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