o find a song that matches our mood, in the 21st century, we need only type in how we are feeling or walk into a new room, and a streaming service’s algorithm will grab that data and intuit our needs ...

This is our second story in our series on the characteristics of musical keys. We started with the “people’s key,” C major. From there it’s an easy skip to D, the root of today’s subject, the “saddest ...

D Minor is a popular key in piano music and is often used to create a somber or thoughtful mood. It is the relative minor of F major and consists of the notes D, F, A and C. The D minor chord is made ...