Originally Posted by Bass Thumper
Another interesting statement.

Even though most nonmusicians can’t name a chord on hearing it, or label it as major or minor, if they hear a major and minor chord back to back they can tell the difference. And their brains can certainly tell the difference – a number of studies have shown that nonmusicians produce different physiological responses to major versus minor chords, and major versus minor keys


I wonder how many musicians can label a chord upon hearing it.
Sort of related, but I am fascinated how minor chords in certain song contexts lose their ‘minor-ishness’, whereas in others they sound minor. It must have something to do with the brain interpretation - analogy: seeing the sentence and not the word.
Andrew

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