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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>

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>

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