The answer to the question is both yes and no as researchers have found that listening to sad music is associated with three types of experiences - pleasure, comfort and pain.
We found that the emotions that make people feel connected in conversation are also the emotions whose expression in music captures what music is all about : sorrow, love, joy, loneliness.
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