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The Science of Scary Music

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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The Original Friday the Thirteenth Part One

The music in friday the thirteenth part one is set to a major key song. It then switches to minor, much more like a tonol and becomes very aggressive. The shift happens when jason jumps out of the water and grabs her. That last care it makes that major shift right there, from, hey, everything's fine, major key. No, it's not. Minor key. Ra, you know, h that's obviously on purpose. Yes, that's, that's that spirit of irony i was talking about. But i mean, can you think of a single instance of a horror movie where there's music that is itself supposed to be scary, and isn

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