TheGreek Posted August 3, 2023 Share Posted August 3, 2023 Have a listen when you have a spare 35 minutes. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct4y4b?xtor=ES-212-[63222_worldservicenewsletter030823]-20230803-[bbcrworldservice_crowdscience_sad_link] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Browning Posted August 3, 2023 Share Posted August 3, 2023 'Cos it's in D minor. 1 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Dare Posted August 3, 2023 Share Posted August 3, 2023 This is a fascinating subject. Google something like "psychological effect of keys in music" and you'll find plenty of really interesting stuff around on the topic of how keys and musical structures affect mood and emotion. Even Bach was aware of it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacDaddy Posted August 3, 2023 Share Posted August 3, 2023 12 minutes ago, Steve Browning said: 'Cos it's in D minor. The saddest of all keys... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul_c2 Posted August 3, 2023 Share Posted August 3, 2023 5 minutes ago, MacDaddy said: The saddest of all keys... Actually, Eb minor makes me quite teary, especially when a community orchestra is trying to play in it.......... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazed Posted August 3, 2023 Share Posted August 3, 2023 The older I get the more sensitive to music I seem to become. Even happy tunes can start me going. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asingardenof Posted August 3, 2023 Share Posted August 3, 2023 21 minutes ago, MacDaddy said: The saddest of all keys... F makes our synthist sad but he has a damaged and bandaged thumb so playing the black keys is tricky for him. I may or may not have started referring to this as "Gary's racist thumb" - in a white covering and hates the blacks... 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nilorius Posted August 3, 2023 Share Posted August 3, 2023 (edited) By vocal invented sad song lyrics. Edited August 4, 2023 by nilorius Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waddo Soqable Posted August 3, 2023 Share Posted August 3, 2023 1 hour ago, Dazed said: The older I get the more sensitive to music I seem to become. Even happy tunes can start me going. With me it's the reverse, I'm even more cynical than I was in the first place.... 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tauzero Posted August 3, 2023 Share Posted August 3, 2023 Because Morrissey is singing on it. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bolo Posted August 4, 2023 Share Posted August 4, 2023 Counterpoint: when you're sad, your favourite sad music can cheer you up! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Posted August 4, 2023 Share Posted August 4, 2023 11 hours ago, MacDaddy said: The saddest of all keys... Simple lines, intertwining. 11 hours ago, Dazed said: The older I get the more sensitive to music I seem to become. Even happy tunes can start me going. 10 hours ago, Waddo Soqable said: With me it's the reverse, I'm even more cynical than I was in the first place.... I'm a mixture of these two. As I've grown older, I have become the most dreadful cynic about most things. You know in Monty Python & the Holy Grail, where they first sight Camelot and the old geezer goes "bleh, it's only a model"? That's me, that is. But having said that, I have become incredibly sensitive to films, TV and especially music. Some pieces have always set me going, Elgar's 'Nimrod' leaves me in helpless floods for example, but now I find my eyes pricking when I listen to all manner of things. Even happy things. Bloody southern softie. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burns-bass Posted August 4, 2023 Share Posted August 4, 2023 12 hours ago, asingardenof said: F makes our synthist sad but he has a damaged and bandaged thumb so playing the black keys is tricky for him. I may or may not have started referring to this as "Gary's racist thumb" - in a white covering and hates the blacks... This is the sort of thing that’s funny in person but doesn’t always translate well when written down. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazed Posted August 4, 2023 Share Posted August 4, 2023 2 hours ago, Rich said: Simple lines, intertwining. I'm a mixture of these two. As I've grown older, I have become the most dreadful cynic about most things. You know in Monty Python & the Holy Grail, where they first sight Camelot and the old geezer goes "bleh, it's only a model"? That's me, that is. But having said that, I have become incredibly sensitive to films, TV and especially music. Some pieces have always set me going, Elgar's 'Nimrod' leaves me in helpless floods for example, but now I find my eyes pricking when I listen to all manner of things. Even happy things. Bloody southern softie. Don’t get me wrong, I started off as a huge cynic about a lot of things and that hasn’t got any better with age 😄 Turns out I’m a soft northern monkey, with a resting “don’t speak to me “ face Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pfretrock Posted August 4, 2023 Share Posted August 4, 2023 I find this a bit sombre (but good). Written just after WW1, Elgar had lost friends and horses and was not living at his beloved Malvern Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asingardenof Posted August 4, 2023 Share Posted August 4, 2023 3 hours ago, Burns-bass said: This is the sort of thing that’s funny in person but doesn’t always translate well when written down. That's fair, apologies for the poor taste of the comment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burns-bass Posted August 4, 2023 Share Posted August 4, 2023 5 hours ago, asingardenof said: That's fair, apologies for the poor taste of the comment. It’s all good, I didn’t want anyone to get upset as I’m sure you didn’t mean anything bad by it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snorkie635 Posted August 4, 2023 Share Posted August 4, 2023 I find myself crying every time our guitarist plays anything. 1 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bubinga5 Posted August 5, 2023 Share Posted August 5, 2023 Ive always preferred the minor key for some reason.Maybe that says something about ones personality. I find this piece of music utterly sublime, utterly sad. But an utterly amazing score from Wojciech Kilar. The strings are just fabulous. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LowB_FTW Posted August 5, 2023 Share Posted August 5, 2023 I don't know what it is about ABBA, but hearing pretty much anything by that band depresses me. And I don't mean that in the usual sense of when someone says something depresses them, it actually does trigger my depression, the same way alcohol used to, so I became t-total to avoid that happening. It's very unusual and as far as I'm aware this is the only band that effects me like this. Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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