An article in the Wall Street Journal discussed research, some old. that suggests why certain musical pieces tend to arouse sentiment. The author focuses on the use of appogiaturas, octave jumps (generally in songs), and transitions from narrow frequency range, low dynamic passages to passages that swell in dynamic and frequency range (think Celine Dion). http://goo.gl/oW9Wd
{ 2012 02 12 }
Tears for appogiaturas
Posted by jmm on Sunday, February 12, 2012, at 6:35 pm. Filed under essays, expression, science. Follow any responses to this post with its comments RSS feed.
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