Music, like other forms of art (programmatic or not), has the capacity
to express negative emotions to the listener and for the listener even
to sometimes experience these emotions without the actual experience of
the listener being negative, paradoxical as that may sound, although it
is a phenomenon of which we are all aware.  The question which is the
topic of this thread fails to accomodate this complexity, which perhaps
is a fault of words themselves rather than the originator of the question.

Michael Cooper