Chords and emotion

I am drawn to musical compositions with minor chords, prompting me to investigate the affects of musical composition on physical and psychological states and the different emotional responses to major and minor chords.

Keywords

Minor chords, Major chords, Emotion, Studio 1, MFA

Further reading

Fritz, Thomas, and Stefan Koelsch. 2008. "The Role Of Semantic Association And Emotional Contagion For The Induction Of Emotion With Music". Behavioral And Brain Sciences 31 (5): 579-580. doi:10.1017/s0140525x08005347.

Wager, Tor D, K.Luan Phan, Israel Liberzon, and Stephan F Taylor. 2003. "Valence, Gender, And Lateralization Of Functional Brain Anatomy In Emotion: A Meta-Analysis Of Findings From Neuroimaging". Neuroimage 19 (3): 513-531. doi:10.1016/s1053-8119(03)00078-8.

McGettigan, Carolyn, Andrew Faulkner, Irene Altarelli, Jonas Obleser, Harriet Baverstock, and Sophie K. Scott. 2012. "Speech Comprehension Aided By Multiple Modalities: Behavioural And Neural Interactions". Neuropsychologia 50 (5): 762-776. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.01.010.

Bibliography

Bakker, David Radford, and Frances Heritage Martin. 2014. "Musical Chords And Emotion: Major And Minor Triads Are Processed For Emotion". Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience 15 (1): 15-31. doi:10.3758/s13415-014-0309-4.

Craton, Lincoln G., Daniel S. Juergens, Hannah R. Michalak, and Christopher R. Poirier. “Roll Over Beethoven? An Initial Investigation of Listeners’ Perception of Chords Used in Rock Music.” Music Perception: An Interdisciplinary Journal 33, no. 3 (2016): 332–43. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26417411.

Willetts, Dale. 2020. "How To Make A Pinhole Film Camera At Home With Some Packaging". Petapixel. https://petapixel.com/2020/05/11/how-to-make-a-pinhole-film-camera-at-home-with-some-packaging/.