Karl Miller wrote: >The term Affektenlehre or the theory of affects in music attempted to >use th concepts of rhetoric and speaking to assign emotions to specific >aspects of music. Yet why do we see a minor key as being potentially >sad vesus a major key being happy. This is exceedingly culture-specific and I think this is where any attempt to 'standardise' a 'language of music' falls to the ground. Deryk Barker <[log in to unmask]>