From: Peter Castine ()
Date: May 14, 2008
Subject:
Re: Cognitive Daily - major vs minor
On 14-May-2008, at 14:39, Kevin Austin wrote:
> Perhaps the listeners could have been trained to recognize them as
> red or blue tunes.
Socialist vs. Capitalist?
I've always found the happy/sad dichotomy unsatisfactory, otoh I
recall that the very first piano school that I learned from used
precisely that metaphor to explain major/minor. Can 50,000,000 John
Thompson pupils be wrong?
(Actually, yes! they can! but being wrong was never a hindrance for a
popular theory.)
The map of neural activity was the point that was actually
interesting. More interesting might have been an examination of how
the brain reacts to modal and non-tonal melodies.
-- P.