I know this is kind of not the point of the post, but now you've me got me thinking. I wonder if there really is something hardwired in our brain re "major=happy, minor = sad", or if it's just a contingency of human culture. What if, from day we were born, we experienced minor melodies associated with happy lyrics and good things happening on the tv screen, while major-key melodies served as incidental music for the scary parts of Finding Nemo....
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