

Death, grave, putrefaction, judgment, eternity lie in its radius.Īb minor - Grumbler, heart squeezed until it suffocates wailing lament, difficult struggle in a word, the color of this key is everything struggling with difficulty.Ī major - This key includes declarations of innocent love, satisfaction with one's state of affairs hope of seeing one's beloved again when parting youthful cheerfulness and trust in God.Ī minor - Pious womanliness and tenderness of character.īb major - Cheerful love, clear conscience, hope aspiration for a better world.īb minor - A quaint creature, often dressed in the garment of night. G minor - Discontent, uneasiness, worry about a failed scheme bad-tempered gnashing of teeth in a word: resentment and dislike.Īb major - Key of the grave. G major - Everything rustic, idyllic and lyrical, every calm and satisfied passion, every tender gratitude for true friendship and faithful love,-in a word every gentle and peaceful emotion of the heart is correctly expressed by this key.

Resentment and discontent are its language.
#MUSIC KEYS AND EMOTIONS FULL#
If ghosts could speak, their speech would approximate this key.Įb major - The key of love, of devotion, of intimate conversation with God.Į major - Noisy shouts of joy, laughing pleasure and not yet complete, full delight lies in E Major.į minor - Deep depression, funereal lament, groans of misery and longing for the grave.į# major - Triumph over difficulty, free sigh of relief utered when hurdles are surmounted echo of a soul which has fiercely struggled and finally conquered lies in all uses of this key.į# minor - A gloomy key: it tugs at passion as a dog biting a dress. Every fear, every hesitation of the shuddering heart, breathes out of horrible D# minor. Thus, the inviting symphonies, the marches, holiday songs and heaven-rejoicing choruses are set in this key.ĭ minor - Melancholy womanliness, the spleen and humours brood.ĭ# minor - Feelings of the anxiety of the soul's deepest distress, of brooding despair, of blackest depresssion, of the most gloomy condition of the soul. It cannot laugh, but it can smile it cannot howl, but it can at least grimace its crying.-Consequently only unusual characters and feelings can be brought out in this key.ĭ major - The key of triumph, of Hallejuahs, of war-cries, of victory-rejoicing. All languishing, longing, sighing of the love-sick soul lies in this key.ĭb major - A leering key, degenerating into grief and rapture. Its character is: innocence, simplicity, naïvety, children's talk.Ĭ minor - Declaration of love and at the same time the lament of unhappy love. The following descriptions penned by Christian Schubart, in his work, 'Ideen zu einer Aesthetik der Tonkunst' ('Ideas for a Aesthetics of Music'), back in 1806 - are just one of many attempts to do just that.Ĭ major - Completely pure. But how do you put the differing moods and emotions conjured up by the various musical keys into words(?). HandPan tuned to different musical keys can vary in flavour considerably.
