Mannerist music used diatonic scale and musical phrases. Mannerist and 19th century music used key to indicate mood and key changes {motif}| to indicate emotion changes. Musical phrases represented emotions. Grief and sadness used small melodic intervals. Harshness and anger used large intervals. Slow notes were for sorrow, and fast notes were for happiness. Long notes were for accented syllables, and short notes were for unaccented syllables. Minor intervals were for grief, and major intervals were for aggression. Dissonance and clashes in harmony were for harshness or bitterness. Ascending melodies denoted height, and descending melodies denoted depth. Short rapid notes were for laughter, and rests were for sighs.
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