Musical sequences, scales, or progressions are assigned personality traits, genders, or emotional characters.
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music
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personality
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Auditory Personality
Musical sequences, scales, or progressions are automatically assigned personality traits, genders, or emotional characters. A rising scale might be perceived as an ambitious young man, while a descending chromatic run could be a melancholic old woman. Related to ordinal linguistic personification (OLP) but triggered by musical rather than linguistic sequences.
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