You can read her previous post in the Science Of Music series here Most of the time, when all else is held constant, music in a major key is judged as happy while minor key music is heard as sad.

But what if the music all stayed the same, and that minor darkness was swapped directly for the sunniness of a major key? YouTuber mead1995 used his computer-based composing software and a generous ...

When we say tonality, we’re talking the key centres of a piece. Think of Beethoven’s love of dark and brooding C minor, or the joy of a Bach concerto in bright and brassy D major. With a bit of ...