musical keys themselves sound differently
this is something i learned
from my excellent classically trained teacher
who studied with a student of Franz Liszt
d was strong, military marches or something
i don’t remember any more,
except to say keys
have different affects and uses
i Googled and found emotions relating to keys
this age has lost sense of the variations of the keys,
volume and electronic reproduction
has diminished that nuance in their shadow
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
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Thank you for the link. I especially enjoyed reading Affective key characteristics from Christian Schubart's Ideen zu einer Aesthetik der Tonkunst (1806), with descriptions like this: D# minor - Feelings of the anxiety of the soul's deepest distress, of brooding despair, of blackest depresssion, of the most gloomy condition of the soul. Every fear, every hesitation of the shuddering heart, breathes out of horrible D# minor. If ghosts could speak, their speech would approximate this key!
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