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This does not explain why there is a semi-universal experience that certain chords sound "happy" and other sound "sad".
by FeepingCreature 10y ago
This does not explain why there is a semi-universal experience that certain chords sound "happy" and other sound "sad".
- arthur_pryor 10y agoactually, here's some recent research suggesting that the experience is less universal than is often assumed (or at least, much more dependent on culture, and less so on basic universal human biology, which is what i assume people are talking about when they say universal here): http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/07/the-jaws-theme-might-not-be-scary-for-tsimane-people/ http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/07/the-jaws-theme-might-... http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature18635.html http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/natu... ("Indifference to dissonance in native Amazonians reveals cultural variation in music perception")