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igorhawks "higher pitch is happier than lower pitch" I do not understand the pitch in those terms. I find it too deterministic and reductionist. Beauty or happiness are abstract concepts too subjective to be able to make such a categorical statement.
On the other hand, we are talking about the pitch in a musical environment. Music is not empirical, it is aesthetic and it responds to some canons according to the historical and political period. Although for a listener at a given moment, he or she would listen to a particular music, it could acquire some semantic meaning, the music itself, let alone if we focus on an aspect as isolated as the pitch without regard to the rest of circumstances, it can not have a meaning of its own.