A study suggests that minor and major seventh chords are the happiest sounds in music, but today’s songwriters are ditching them in favour of simple minor chords. But why does this matter? We all love ...

Do you associate minor chords with sad music and major chords with happy music? If you do, you probably grew up surrounded by music that follows the basic rules of Western music theory. But not ...

Happy Chords and Sad Chords A team of researchers at Durham University in the UK has been attempting to answer that question by conducting cross-cultural studies involving listeners from different ...