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Many styles, or genres, of music are quite recognizable by the type of key structure they employ.

Many styles, or genres, of music are quite recognizable by the type of key structure they employ.

In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, composers and contemporary writers on music believed that each major or minor key posessed a special character, or "affect," which influenced the content of the work being composed. For example, according to eighteenth-century author Johannes Mattheson, the key of D Major was associated with merriment and warlike music, while F Minor was the key of "deep despair and the heart's fear of death."<ref>Rita Steblin, ''A History of Key Characteristics in the 18th and Early 19th Centuries,'' 1983</ref>

In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, composers and contemporary writers on music believed that each major or minor key possessed a special character, or "affect," which influenced the content of the work being composed. For example, according to eighteenth-century author Johannes Mattheson, the key of D Major was associated with merriment and warlike music, while F Minor was the key of "deep despair and the heart's fear of death."<ref>Rita Steblin, ''A History of Key Characteristics in the 18th and Early 19th Centuries,'' 1983</ref>

==Also see==

==Also see==

[[Chord (music)]]

[[Chord (music)]]

[[category:musical terms]]

[[Category:Musical terms]]

==References==

==References==

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