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).
These associations with emotions or feelings came from old times,
primitive eras, when the music was - and is - used for several human
activities: work, religion, politic, recreation and joint with another
arts (songs, theatre/opera, dance, movie etc.). In the Baroque Era (with
the "theory of the affects") and in the Romanticism (with its "tone
poems") there was this ingredient in the instrumental music.
Also the cultural context/heritage and the personal behavior and/or life
experiences give meanings to the Music.
Stravinsky and Boulez written articles about this matter.
Best regards.
Edson Tadeu Ortolan
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