Music as Biology : The Tones We Like and Why / Dale Purves.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Purves, Dale, author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource : 44 color illustrations, 2 halftones, 4 tables

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

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

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Sep 2018)

ISBN:

0-674-97298-8

OCLC:

1054879891