Minor keys and lust meanemotions: silence as Dark and Lustful, THE SOUNDS OF SILENCE, performed by Simon & Garfunkel, in D minor

These are three speed charts of the song The Sounds of Silence, one of the themes for the movie The Graduate, by Simon & Garfunkel.

This song: another in our continuing series of what happens when you put a song on a minor key—or rather—it was in a minor key (sad key) anyway, and the results are such: in this song, what would be an other wise TV-theme from the 1970s type syrup-like sound IF the song had been in D major. It is not in D major. D minor—the saddest key of all, according to Christopher Guest in This Is Spinal Tap—just think of the Moonlight Sonata by Beethoven, Bach Piano Concerto in D Minor—one of the most amazing pieces ever.

And so here: a lot of sad surreal ethereal eeriness, mixed with the speed of lust—and here you have the makings of a base of what has become a true classic for the ages of popular Western music.


The frequencies for The Sounds of Silence are:
meanspeed=106.4 beats per minute
meanemotion=LUSTFUL
meanbeat=1.773 beats per second
meanspace=564 milliseconds per beat.
meanspace=2256 milliseconds per measure.
meanphase=1.773 cycles per second.
meanpitch=453.97 Hertz, 53.5 cents above A4=440.000 Hertz and 46.5 cents below A#4/Bb4=466.164 Hertz.

Ian Schneider
New York, NY
13 August 2006
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