http://cmt.disqus.com/enSun, 14 Jun 2009 16:32:54 -0000http://chambermusictoday.blogspot.com/2009/06/trio-hantai-and-marin-marais-intimate.html#comment-10892530<p>Several years ago John Sloboda published a nice paper with Steinbeis and Koelsch [then] at Max-Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig (link above), showing the association of affect with breach of harmonic-expectancy. The interesting passing dissonances and violations of harmonic expectations are, I think, why the Marais piece seemed so sad... are why, too, that work captured my imagination and led me to post this stuff.</p><p>dsm.</p>DSMSun, 14 Jun 2009 16:32:54 -0000