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[quote user="Deggesty"] Marknewton asked "What are minor keys?" I do not know how much you know basically about music, but you could say that basically one difference between a minor key and a major key is three flats. If you go to a piano and play the C major scale, you will start with any C, and go up to the next C, playing only the white keys. However, if you play the black key before the E, which is E flat, instead of the E,  and A flat and B flat instead of A and B, you will have played the C minor scale. There are actually two C minor scales, C minor harmonic and C minor melodic; I do not recall which one is which, though I can play them. Music played in a minor key has an element of sadness in it (listen to Rimsky-Korsakov's "Russian Easter Overture"), and it certainly would not be recommended as background music for someone who has to concentrate on his work.When I was working, I had a radio at my desk that was set to a station that plays classical music (I certainly did not blast the eardrums of the other people in the same room), and several of my co-workers and other people with whom I interacted expressed appreciation of the music when they were by my desk.There are people who cannot stand classical music at all, and there those who love it greatly, both as background music and as music to be listened to. [/quote]I have always noticed a definite emotional feeling with a minor chord that could be described as sadness.  It might be also described as a feeling of surrender that takes one out of the immediate, workaday, normal mindset, and into a kind of higher or spiritual feeling.  Religious might be the right word for it.  There is also something in a minor chord that makes it stand out as "prettier" than its surrounding major chords.  I have always wondered if a minor chord evokes this same emotion in everybody, or if it is just my personal reaction.  If it evokes it in everybody, it suggests that music produces a common emotional response in people, rather than an individual response in the ear of each listener. Some locomotive air horns seem to sound minor chords.  To my ear, the EMD normally aspirated V-16 engines sound like a minor chord, although it is not immediately obvious.
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