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I was dissociating on the way to work (as you do) while listening to the radio and I suddenly started thinking like, what made music scales have the connotations they do? Why does our brain associate the harmony of the C Major scale with happy joy stuff, and why does the phyrgian scale feel so scary and looming.

Like, I get emotional and sensual connotaions with other senses because they tend tobe easily associated at a young age. Red inflammed skin, orange fire, red hot metal, cold purple skin, ice filtering blue light through, the waters reflection of a blue sky. You can easily see where yound minds (or if you believe in the original definition of meme, ancestral minds) would associate "warm and cool" colors

But why would a connection be made that a certain frequency means happy, and another means scary? Was there some danger that screamed in E minor in the past? Why on earth was "The devils interval" so scary that the church had a say on it?? On that note, why does dissonance sound "bad"? I just dont get these connections and its so cool to me....


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in reply to @Onesydoo's post:

There was a yt video that said that cultures add their own connotations to them we have just been predisposed to these feelings. So other cultures can hear things in different connotations. I don't remember who the video was by or what the title was tho.

cookiespy hit the nail on the head on what i was going to say. i think it is conditioned through culture rather than necessarily being memetic. it's simply because of the associations we make through usage we see in films and television and such. indeed different cultures have different interpretations, and we are a blank slate in that regard when it comes to infancy. so we don't find sad music sad or happy music happy at that age. it's all just interesting sound