Melancholy Music Evokes Positive Emotions

This maybe one of those quintessentially existential questions any person, regardless of culture, would ask – “why do we enjoy listening to sad music?”

The general assumption is that sad music makes you sad, but a study made by researchers from the Tokyo University of the Arts and the RIKEN Brain Science Institute – published in the open-access journal Frontiers in Psychology – says that sad music may actually evoke positive emotions in the listener. MORE HERE