Dr Faustus of Modern Physics - Department of Speech, Music and ...

66 CHAPTER 13. FALLS OF MUSIC AND PHYSICS
• F sharp minor: painful extraordinary experience,
• E major: heaven and grace
• C sharp minor: grave and tragic,
• B major: sparkling,
• G sharp minor: obscure and scary,
• F sharp major: shining ligh and radiance,
• E flat minor: darkness and death,
• D flat major: romantically sensuous and assuaging,
• B flat minor: dark and simple,
• A flat major: soft and lugubre,
• F minor: tragic,
• E flat major: trinitarian godliness and human heroism,
• C flat minor: tragic
• B flat major: will and power,
• G minor: tragic and weeping,
• F major: pastoral
• D minor: devotional and demonic.
With the Fall of the well-tempered scale the qualities of the different keys in
principle lost their physical basis, but yet was present to the composers of
the classsic and romantic periods following the baroque of Bach.