Klarinet Archive - Posting 000315.txt from 2003/06

From: ormondtoby@-----.net (Ormandtoby Montoya)
Subj: Re: [kl] Hard data on 'mood' of a key
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 20:55:26 -0400

Dan Leeson wrote:

if the chorus and orchestra are playing SANCTUS! SANCTUS! SANCTUS!
(Holy! Holy! Holy!), the emotions of the audience would be one of joy in
religious fervor, no matter what key or what mode was being employed.

....for the record, logic demands that if we disqualify blues songs as
evidence of a key's affect when the song includes mournful lyrics, we
must disqualify SANCTUS! as evidence also. This doesn't=A0prove
anything, but just to keep the logic tight.

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