This doesn’t make any sense to me, these are just sounds, they don’t sound neither happy nor sad to me (when I try playing them on piano). But I’m new to music so I don’t know… Is there an explanation that actually makes sense?
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We don’t really know for sure, but there have been studies of remote cultures that have little to no exposure to western music that suggest our emotional association is cultural rather than anything inherent about the chords themselves.
This article goes over a recent study in Papua New Guinea that is quite interesting. https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/are-minor-chords-sad-and-major-chords-happy-not-if-you-live-in-a-remote-papua-new-guinea-village/
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