Fast/Major and Slow/Minor pairings in J.S. Bach's Well Tempered Clavier Books 1 and 2

Some studies have found that subjects give higher preference ratings and clearer emotional descriptions to pieces with the tempo/mode pairs fast/major and slow/minor. If these findings are true, one might expect to find a predominance of fast/major and slow/minor pairings in musical literature. This...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Katelyn Horn, Eugenia Costa-Giomi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Ohio State University Libraries 2012-07-01
Series:Empirical Musicology Review
Subjects:
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Online Access:https://kb.osu.edu/dspace/handle/1811/52810