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Sad Music

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The Saddest Song in the World

Professor schellenberg has been studying the psychological effects of music for decades. His most recent piece of research was testing a hunch of his that sad music has become in sinly popular. But just how universal is this appreciation for sad music? And does sad pieces of music share common characteristics? Well when i asked you for suggestions for sad music on the world service facebook page, you wrote him with examples from all over the world. You want to hear songs performed by armenian musician givan gasparion on the duddock, which some call the saddest instrument in the worldhe meno moveno. He mena coven m a. So i wish i had

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