Daniel Levitin, in his popular bestseller entitled This is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession from 2006, characterizes the perception of the minor chord, which lowers the third of a ...

Context: Bm6 (capo second fret) as the chord after the middle eight phrase, "Her hair of floating sky is shimmering" and before the word 'glimmering'. Low to high strings: X 0 2 2 1 2 This chord is ...

To begin our investigation into the hidden cause of our peculiar perception of minor chords and keys, we will listen to a trombone quartet playing a C minor chord. We might describe the sound as "rich ...