Okay, so when you hear a song, let’s say In the Hall of the Mountain King – it’s a little bit spooky, a little bit creepy-crawly.
Does the music sound this way, and we feel this way because of the inherent sounds themselves? Or have the particular instrument/note combinations been so frequently used for spooky situations that we now automatically associate it as spooky music?
The same can be said for anything really, ‘space’ music, romantic music, sad music. Which way round is the association?
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There is a concept called “reification”. An example is the Star Wars theme. When you hear it, you think of Star Wars, not the music as it is. You represent the abstract music, which has no such association on its own, as a concrete thing, in this case a movie world.
As a 21st century person, you’ve probably grown up watching TV. All those cartoons have backing tracks which programmed you to assign feelings to certain chords, modes and methods of musical resolution.
For instance, this does not sound like a wedding to me, but on a certain subcontinent they would disagree.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4Rr0X7dbCI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4Rr0X7dbCI)
I dunno, other people can explain it better, like this guy who actually knows a lot about music.
[https://youtu.be/G77ev9pks4I](https://youtu.be/G77ev9pks4I)
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