Classical music is one of the richest art forms for conveying emotion. Here is some of the saddest classical music in the repertoire
Billboard's Hot 100 chart presents a snapshot with a shutter speed of one week—another example of the "Tyranny of the New" that in my opinion has always bedeviled the music business and music journalism. A single that gets to No. 1 might be grabby as all get-out, but it might also...
For example, Schubert's melodies aren't all that much different from the Classical composers', but he always manages to harmonize them in such a way there's some kind of melancholy to them. Thus the sadness is not in the major key melody itself a lot of the time, one could say, and...