on music (somewhat disturbing questions)

[EvrLstngDaze]

here's a somewhat disturbing question:
why are certain sounds or notes better liked than other ones? I mean how do we judge a good sound as opposed to a bad sound? is it evolutionay? is it developed as a response to bad experiences?
just want to hear people's thoughts on this one.

[Arvestaked]

I do not think that any individual frequency is more or less liked than any other. However, A single frequency can not be generated naturally in nature; any note produced has the main frequency and a bunch of others to go with it to produce unique tonal qualities. Maybe one person prefers the timbre of one instrument as opposed to another. The reason for that is probably very similar to the reason why some people enjoy eating mushrooms and others do not. I guess that is a bad example because people who enjoy consuming fungi are fruitcakes.

If you want to know why notes are of certain frequencies and why chords are the way they are, it most likely has to do with ratios between frequencies and how the human brain reacts to those ratios.