Music as Biology : : The Tones We Like and Why / / Dale Purves.
Why do human beings find some tone combinations consonant and others dissonant? Why do we make music using only a small number of scales out the billions that are possible? Dale Purves shows that rethinking music theory in biological terms offers a new approach to centuries-long debates about the or...
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| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
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| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t Frontmatter -- |t Contents -- |t Preface -- |t 1. Sound Signals and Sound Stimuli -- |t 2. The Perception of Sound Signals -- |t 3. Human Vocalization -- |t 4. Music and Vocal Similarity -- |t 5. Consonance and Dissonance -- |t 6. Musical Scales -- |t 7. Music and Emotion -- |t 8. Music and Speech across Cultures -- |t 9. Implications -- |t Appendix: An Overview of the Human Auditory System -- |t Glossary -- |t Bibliography -- |t Acknowledgments -- |t Index |
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