Edson Tadeu Ortolan:

>I don't believe in "sad" music or in "happy" music because the Music
>(symphonies, concerts, sonatas and other chamber music) is a technical
>construction, based in sonorities (modal, tonal, atonal, twelve-tone
>system, mictotonal, electronics etc. and timbral/pitches/rhythms
>parameters).

If this were strictly true, then dramatic music (opera, movies) makes
no sense.  There'd be no difference between setting the Texas Chainsaw
Massacre to Rite of Spring or "How Much is That Doggy in the Window."

Steve Schwartz