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How is it that music generates so many emotions if... : r/musictheory

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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

Music doesn't generate emotions. YOU generate emotions. You "put them on" the music :-) And these are learned, conditioned responses. Music DOES say things - it says what you were told it says when you were little. You were TOLD by the title. "Lost Love" - well guess what, now you think that music has an emotion. Lyrics tell you. Hearing the music during a scene in a movie or video game. "Triumphant music" - yeah it sounds like what you hear when Mario finishes a level. "Taps" is played a Funerals. It's sad. Things that sound like it, are sad. To be clear, some of these cultural…

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