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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It’s more that major sounds “normal” in Western classical music and minor sounds not normal, but we are told this oversimplification as a starting point for hearing the difference. Something like 70% of all music in the Western tradition is written in major keys, even some music that sounds “sad”, and the inverse is true too, sometimes music written in non-manor modalities sounds happy.
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