Carde,
From what I saw on YouTube, Scandinnavia has its unique brand of playing lounge music, that is called "tafel music". It actually sounds more like classical music. Please, check out the tutorial by Gjermund Sivertson on YouTube. Personally, music is now into using more tonal variations by the use of modal interchange as played by popular artists like Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson and Alabama. ---In [email protected], <hepa7@...> wrote : http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/11/what-makes-happy-song-chances-are-it-has-more-seventh-chords http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/11/what-makes-happy-song-chances-are-it-has-more-seventh-chords Major and minor sevenths were both more prevalent in happier songs http://rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org/lookup/doi/10.1098/rsos.170952, the researchers report today in Royal Society Open Science. But there were some regional differences: Songs from Asia and Oceania tended to be more positive than songs from North America, whereas songs from Scandinavia tended to be more negative (thanks to the popularity there of darker genres like power and death metal, the researchers say). The study also found an overall decrease in positive music and lyrics, which peaked in the 1950s. But those good vibes may be making a comeback—since 2010, the “happiness score” of popular songs has been on the rebound.
