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Mermaids only sing in minor keys. - Why?

on: June 09, 2009, 10:10:57 PM

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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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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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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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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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