RE: [Harp-L] Why do we associate major with happy and minor with sad? (No harp content)

[Patrick Killeen <patrickkilleen@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

My guess is that's it's a cltural thing.  Our culture associates major keys with happy 
emotions and minor keys with sad ones so that's how we learn to hear them.
 
Patrick
 
> Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 09:50:59 -0600
> From: michaelrubinharmonica@xxxxxxxxx
> To: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [Harp-L] Why do we associate major with happy and minor with sad? (No harp content)
> 
> Guesses?
> Michael Rubin
> Michaelrubinharmonica.com