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The universality of musical tones has long fascinated philosophers, scientists, musicians and ordinary listeners. Why do human beings worldwide 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? Why do differently organized scales elicit different emotions? Why are there so few notes in scales? Music as Biology argues that biology offers answers to these and other questions on which conventional music theory is silent. (Harvard University Press, Fall 2016)

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Name Music as Biology Date 03 Fri 2016 Categories Books Author daniel
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