Many components make up happy and sad music, including differing tempos, timbres and rhythms, but major-minor tonality is a key clue from which we extract an emotional message. Dark Keys 39.00 NOTE: THIS PRODUCT IS NOW DISCONTINUED Features 50 Professionally crafted Presets to get you the amazing soundtrack sounds inspired from the 80s. Aristotle suspected that the emotional impact of music was at least partly down to the way that it mimicked our own vocalisations when we squeal for joy or cry out in anger. The science behind the speech-music link may be new but the idea is an ancient one. Scientists have shown that the sound spectra – the profile of sound ingredients – that make up happy speech are more similar to happy music than sad music and vice versa. The Mafa tribe people may also be reacting to sound and emotion associations that originate from the way that we speak. The tonic (C) is the strongest note and draws more of our attention, so minor chords like this trigger more sensory dissonance, a kind of tension that stems from the clashing of closely spaced frequencies. Take for example the C triad chord (C, E, and G) in the minor version the middle note is E flat (closer to C) whereas in the major version we hear natural E (further away from C). A simple minor chord (with three notes, also known as a ‘triad’) also uses a middle note that is closer to the tonic as compared to a major triad. Let’s look at the nuts and bolts of sound.

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