Dr. David Bashwiner

That answer is like definitely different tempos do things different.

And then connecting it to emotion is it does connect with emotion is just there's more steps in that process.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Huge.

I wrote my whole dissertation on that.

The simple answer is that things that are in major, for whatever reason, sound happier, and the things that are in minor sound sadder.

And it's possible to make music in such a way.

Like with the Ologies theme, no one would listen to that and be like, that's sad.

And that's in minor.

So that's actually a good example of the case.

It's not always the case that minor is sadness.

I think it really helps to not...

put labels on things and then try to figure out what is going on in a brain.

Like why, what is Major doing in the brain that ends up being different in some way and like changing the affect that you experience in some way, in a very subtle way, presumably.

And then what is it that composers do to enhance the minorness of a passage?

Do one more example?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Okay.

I'm going to do this in minor.

And if I just play this chord, it actually does kind of sound sad by itself.