x-ray peat
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Interesting, though not that surprising given the relatively little research that is publicly available. I would imagine that TPTB prefer to keep us peasants in the dark as to how we are being manipulated. This is a very old science of mass psychology and I'm sure it has been perfected by now.Yes. But, the authoritarian environment of music schools made it a bit silly. There were a number of people doing research in Music Psychology and other Musicology depts, but nothing interesting. Music Therapy was also a Major at my school. They were all comfortable with the absurdly limited ideas that minor keys = sad; major keys = happy. That is the level of pervasive illiteracy.
"Music directly imitates the passions or states of the soul...when one listens to music that imitates a certain passion, he becomes imbued with the same passion; and if over a long time he habitually listens to music that rouses ignoble passions, his whole character will be shaped to an ignoble form....Any musical innovation is full of danger to the whole state, and ought to be prohibited. When modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the state always change with them." Plato
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