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In my capstone research paper, I delved into the impact of music on the human psyche, body, and society, studying the overall human experience in music. I aimed to create five distinct musical pieces, each played in a different key that evokes emotional characteristics.

With the participation of 100 individuals, each participant was asked to listen to one of the five pieces and reflect on their emotional response. They were asked to express their unique experiences with the music by associating it with a colored musical note and intuitively placing it within a musical scale, creating a “collective hum” of each music piece.

So many different responses yet so similar.

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MUSIC PIECE #1

B Major: Strongly colored, announcing wild passions, composed from the most glaring colors. Anger, rage, jealousy, fury, despair and every burden of the heart lies in its sphere.

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MUSIC PIECE #2

B Minor: This is as it were the key of patience, of calm awaiting ones's fate and of submission to divine dispensation.

D Major: The key of triumph, of Hallelujahs, of war-cries, of victory-rejoicing. Thus, the inviting symphonies, the marches, holiday songs and heaven-rejoicing choruses are set in this key.

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MUSIC PIECE #3

C Minor: Declaration of love and at the same time the lament of unhappy love. All languishing, longing, sighing of the love-sick soul lies in this key.

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MUSIC PIECE #4

A Major: This key includes declarations of innocent love, satisfaction with one's state of affairs; hope of seeing one's beloved again when parting; youthful cheerfulness and trust in God.

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MUSIC PIECE #5

G Major: Everything rustic, idyllic and lyrical, every calm and satisfied passion, every tender gratitude for true friendship and faithful love,--in a word every gentle and peaceful emotion of the heart is correctly expressed by this key.