Reply To: The Challenges of Horror and Dissonance

#11497
Nicolai P. Zwar
Participant

    What I don’t see is any reason to think that we have a “hardwired” predisposition to like a specific musical feature, like a plagal cadence, or the tune to “Danny Boy”.

    Who knows… we sure don’t.
    Of course, we’re not all hardwired to like anything. Yet nevertheless we all don’t learn to like something either. It’s not evident or clear why some people react deeply to music, while others don’t. There are some hypotheses, but none are remotely conclusive.