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Emotion in Music and Speech Expressed Similarly




According to Duke researchers, music's major mode is typically used to convey excited, happy or bright emotions, whereas the minor mode typically conveys subdued, sad or dark emotions. Recent studies indicate that the tones used in music parallel similar tones in speech, and that these rules hold true for western and eastern music. The results support the hypothesis that the tonality of a piece of music expresses emotion because it imitates the tonal characteristics of emotion in the voice... [Full research]





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