Music as Biology : : The Tones We Like and Why /

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
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Purves, Dale,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2017]
©2017
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (164 p.) :; 44 color illustrations, 2 halftones, 4 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1. Sound Signals and Sound Stimuli
  • 2. The Perception of Sound Signals
  • 3. Human Vocalization
  • 4. Music and Vocal Similarity
  • 5. Consonance and Dissonance
  • 6. Musical Scales
  • 7. Music and Emotion
  • 8. Music and Speech across Cultures
  • 9. Implications
  • Appendix: An Overview of the Human Auditory System
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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