Weekend Wordery: The Sadness of the Minor Third
July 11, 2010
A recently published study by Meagan Curtis of Tufts University’s Music Cognition Lab suggests that, at least among speakers of American English, the minor third tone interval conveys sadness in speech, just as it does in music. Particularly in D minor (the saddest of all keys), I’d add, though the study does not specifically support that further observation.
Via Scientific American.
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