Synesthesia between relative harmonies and emotion?
I am an amateur musician, brought up with a rather classical repertoire. Playing the piano, singing in a choir, ...
I associate harmonies with emotions/character traits. Not in an absolute manner, but in a relative one. The base harmony of any piece of music is for me peaceful, yet boring. The dominant harmony is strict and bossy. The subdominant is sweet and innocent. The relative minor key of the base harmony is sad but peaceful. If the key has a diminished seventh chord, it adds an "ashamed" touch to the harmony it is added to. Etc... you get it. For almost any harmony - always in relation to the base harmony. So it is totally irrelevant whether the base harmony is c major or f sharp major or ...
This kind of "feeling" the harmonies allows me to replay/re-sing (the gist, not details !) of basically any song I hear - including the harmonies - as long as it stays within the lines of classical hamonic rules.
I only recently learned that this is NOT a common strategy/talent/thing and NOT the way most musicians - even professional ones - understand the harmonies of a song.
Is this also synesthesia? Anyone else who has this experience?