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/r/musictheory is a community for the discussion of music theory and related topics. How is it that music generates so many emotions if... it doesn't say anything? It is really understandable that art generates emotions. But the vast majority of emotions aroused by art in general, such as the visual art or literary arts, are linked to representation (abstract art can generate emotions, but it seems strange to me to think that they can be as strong as those of the most representative art). . Literary, in the same way, I read a word and it has a meaning, then there may or may not be a metaphor, but in principle I am in the world of meaning. But....what the hell does music do? Does anyone have a study or treatise on this topic? Really, how can it be that the movement of certain sounds, their pitch, timbre, etc. can generate such strong emotions, when they seem to mean nothing. How sometimes we listen to a song, and at a certain moment the sound of a particular note that breaks through can

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