This key just like C major is also associated with feelings of Naivety but just like D minor, it is feminine and womanly and conveys feelings of a womanly declaration of love. Unsettled even in the midst of delight, this key is characterized by bickering, quarrelsome, boisterous, and short-fused attributes. This key is also called “The Key of Ghosts”. “A sealing of doom is imminent” is all the message that this key rings. The theme of this key would be “Devotion”.Ī chill down the spine, imminent danger, shuddering, despair. It also embodies feelings of love, openness, and deep affection. This key conveys feelings of intimate conversations and devotion to God. The theme of this key would be “Paranoia” or “Worry” Popularly referenced as “Feminine”, this key is also believed to convey feelings of melancholy, ruminating, overthinking, and worry. Most inviting symphonies, Holiday and Praise Songs were set to this key. This is something like a Victory key consisting of war cries and Hallelujahs. This is a key characterized by energetic shouts of triumph. An intimate conversation with God whilst feeling deeply sorry is the theme for this key. This key is described as “Penitent” because it carries a feeling of sorrow, regret, remorse, and even elements of self-judgment and self-punishment. This key indeed had very unusual characteristics and consequently, it was believed that only unusual feelings could be brought out from this key.
Not capable of intense howling to express this grief but of a grimace to visualize it. It was thought of as incapable of a laugh but of a wan smile perhaps. It is characterized by a fullness of tone and euphony degenerating into a rapture of grief. This key is associated with a steep sloping into a den of sadness. The theme of this key would be “Love Sick” Now, this is the “Love-Sick” key as it is popularly believed to carry feelings of declarations of love and also the lamenting of love lost or unhappy and unsatisfying relationships. It is commonly referred to as the “Key of Children” and it was believed to embody feelings of earnestness, freeness from burdens, simplicity, and naivety. This key is associated with a feeling of being completely pure. The Emotional Characteristics of Musical Keys After 1917 however, equal temperaments became the dominant tuning and as a result these affective emotional characteristics somehow became lost to us. Although it is true that all of these characteristics are subjective, at the time then it was quite easy to see each key uniquely because of how peculiar they each sounded within unequal temperaments. It was actually a thing then, much like a shared culture even among the very popular musicians of that era. Well, the thing is, the association of musical keys with specific qualitative emotional characteristics was most common before the 20th century.
One way or the other you might have heard or come across something about musical keys being associated with emotional characteristics and feelings.
Do Musical Keys have emotional characteristics?
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