2026-10-05 05:29:52
I think I know why "sad trombone" (and any melody that descends like that) is sad .
I was awake listening to my wife snore and, as her breath slowed down (she must have been going into a deeper sleep phase), the pitch of the snore got lower and lower.
What if we instinctively associate decreasing pitch with person's breath slowing down, eventually to stop?
