Nothing as stupid as scientists trying to figure out music. About as
stupid as them trying to figure out consciousness. :-D
Every composer knows how chord "color" effects their tune. There was no
mention of the dominant seventh chord just the major seventh chord and
minor seventh chord. And jazz likes to color stuff up more with 9ths,
11ths and 13ths to make things more "out there."
On 11/15/2017 10:30 AM, jr_...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote:
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 FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <hepa7@...> wrote :
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.
