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November 13, 2012 02:47 pm PST
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The kids dig minor keys: How pop music has changed since 1960
While 85% of Billboard Top 100 songs of the 1960s were written in a major key, that preference no longer holds true today. Minor key songs have become the majority, representing about 60% of modern hits. Scientific American's Helen Lee Lin delves into this, and other documented changes in musical preference. The research is totally [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/P-RkDb0s9xs/the-kids-dig-minor-keys-how-p.html
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