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Topic: Mermaids only sing in minor keys. - Why?  (Read 3086 times)

Offline robsound

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Mermaids only sing in minor keys. - Why?
on: June 09, 2009, 10:10:57 PM
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Offline kris_k

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Re: Mermaids only sing in minor keys. - Why?
Reply #1 on: June 13, 2010, 05:20:15 PM
That was a very interesting fact to me. I don't know the answer. Maybe because they are sad?
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Offline point of grace

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Re: Mermaids only sing in minor keys. - Why?
Reply #2 on: July 14, 2010, 02:41:01 AM
it's more cantabile, dramatic and lyric
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Offline birba

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Re: Mermaids only sing in minor keys. - Why?
Reply #3 on: July 14, 2010, 04:54:16 AM
In Debussy's la mer, when the chorus sings, I get the feeling they're mermaids and it's not in a minor key.
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Offline eminemvsrach

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Re: Mermaids only sing in minor keys. - Why?
Reply #4 on: July 14, 2010, 12:58:13 PM
Didn't Ariel sing in a major key in Disney's "the little mermaid"?




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