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Music as Biology: The Tones We Like and Why

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Description for Music as Biology: The Tones We Like and Why Hardcover. 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 organization and impact of music. Num Pages: 164 pages, 44 color illustrations, 2 halftones, 4 tables. BIC Classification: AV; PSAJ; PSAN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 244 x 20. Weight in Grams: 548.
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 of the billions that are possible? Why do differently organized scales elicit different emotions? Why are there so few notes in scales? In Music as Biology, Dale Purves argues that biology offers answers to these and other questions on which conventional music theory is silent. When people and animals vocalize, they generate tonal sounds--periodic pressure changes ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
547g
Number of Pages
164
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674545151
SKU
V9780674545151
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About Dale Purves
Dale Purves is George Barth Geller Professor for Research in Neurobiology Emeritus and presently Research Professor in the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences.

Reviews for Music as Biology: The Tones We Like and Why
In this engaging and lucidly written book, Dale Purves makes the important case that we can never fully understand music and the way it affects us without understanding its ecological context and origins. These, he argues, lie in human vocal communication, with the characteristics of music and our reactions to them having been shaped by natural selection. This perspective, supported ... Read more

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