Every so often this little chart goes viral again, often with an invitation to readers to pick themselves, as it were, out of the image:
This apparently comes from, as the caption tells us, a 17th-century composition book. Now maybe they just had emotions Different in the late 17th century. A lot can change about subjective experience in four hundred years. Harold Bloom said Shakespeare invented human interiority only like a hundred years before that, so really, maybe it’s like how babies can’t see yet. We were still working out the kinks. We were test-driving our feels. Still, anyone who has perfect pitch and very strong, immediate emotional reactions to certain pieces of music — i.e. me — can see at a glance that this is wrong. Allow me to give some quick examples.
ncG1vNJzZmiomJ65qrzCoamiq6Sirq960q6ZrKyRmLhvr86mZqlnnqR6sLLFnqWsnV2XwrV5zJqpnGWRo8Gwtc2eZJygkae9prrTopyrqw%3D%3D