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What makes music sound "scary"?

October 31st, 2006 · No Comments · how the brain works, music and the brain

Tweet With Halloween just around the corner, I’ve been contemplating what makes music scary. Some of my younger readers may not know that for a couple of decades, movies were silent. In other words, the audience just read the dialogue at the bottom of the screen, and a pianist sat to the side of the […]

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