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Originally Posted by Calm
Yeh there's a lot of truth in that, though I doubt either of us are experts when it comes to the psychology of music.
I would say that it is a lot more indirect than you tend to suggest: our association of sounds with feeling probably has a lot more to do with our understanding of emotions in standard communication. So instead of learning from music itself we learn from elsewhere: be it verbal/ visual or whatever.
None of this does anything to belittle the effect of music, of course, everything we encounter is seen in the context of what we are used to/expect.
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It's just my unprofessional opinion.
I have to disagree on the link between our feelings and sound, It's the movement of frequencies, rather than the frequencies themselves that are important. you can transpose a sad piece of music to any key you want, it will still be a sad piece of music.