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how can any music be unemotional? take the oldest form of music known to man, the Gregorian Chant.....if the singers sang an Augmented Fifth, they cringed......itz the absolute most horrific chord known to man....i believe itz a Minor Fifth.....or sumtin? I forget....but the Augmented Fifth is also known as the "devil's chord".......now, is that not characteristic of some emotion....
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Diminished Fifth/Augmented Fourth, also called the "tritone" (because the two pitches are exactly three pitches apart). Very dissonant, yet many have used it well. The melody in Maria from West Side Story is heavily based on tritones.
Music is definitely emotional...the very existance of vibrato proves that, as its meant to replicate (in a sense) the wavering of the human voice in an emotional moment.
Also, I'm becoming more and more fond of putting music before most of the rest of the world.