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Spinal tap got it right: d minor is the saddest key. I think Reiner was riffing on christian Schubart, from google: “D minor, wrote Schubart, is a key of “mela
by newbamboo 5y ago
Spinal tap got it right: d minor is the saddest key. I think Reiner was riffing on christian Schubart, from google:
“D minor, wrote Schubart, is a key of “melancholy womanliness, the spleen and humours brood.” He actually found D#minor to be sadder. It is the key, he wrote “of brooding despair, of blackest depresssion, of the most gloomy condition of the soul.”
- jefftk 5y agoIn modern equal tempered music Dm isn't any sadder than the other minor keys. It's only in older tuning systems (ex https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Well_temperament https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Well_temperament) the different keys had different feelings.
- newbamboo 5y agoIf nothing else instruments play differently in different keys. Horn players like certain b flat, guitarists love g, tuning a stringed instrument higher or lower changes the feel. But I am not convinced 440hz is the same as 500hz etc, on the physiological level.