M&D p 172 spoiler question

[Dexter C. Palmer]

On Wed, 7 May 1997 deedle at loop.com wrote:

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> >Anyone have any idea about the emotional state to be invoked by
> >F# minor? [...] Maybe one of you musicologists has run across some old
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> >the emotional content of various scales.
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> D minor is supposedly the saddest of all keys.
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> -- deedle

My musicologist friends here seem to think that the key of F# minor evokes
not sadness, exactly, but pathos. I haven't been able to dig up a piece in
that key yet, though. 

					--Dexter Palmer