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The course will explore the tone combinations that humans consider consonant or dissonant, the scales we use, and the emotions music elicits, all of which provide a rich set of data for exploring music and auditory aesthetics in a biological framework. Analyses of speech and musical databases are consistent with the idea that the chromatic scale (the set of tones used by humans to create music), consonance and dissonance, worldwide preferences for a few dozen scales from the billions that are possible, and the emotions elicited by music in different cultures all stem from the relative similarity of musical tonalities and the characteristics of voiced (tonal) speech. Like the phenomenology of visual perception, these aspects of auditory perception appear to have arisen from the need to contend with sensory stimuli that are inherently unable to specify their physical sources, leading to the evolution of a common strategy to deal with this fundamental challenge.
Introduction to Music as Biology
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An overview of the organization of the human auditory system, and how sound signals are transformed into sound stimuli.
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An introduction to the sound qualities we perceive, and how and why these qualities differ from the information in sound signals.
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A discussion of the nature of vocal sound signals, their biological importance and their role in understanding music.
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The tonal phenomena that need to be explained in any theory of music, and different approaches that have been take to provide answers.
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Why a small number of basic scales are used in music worldwide, and how a biological framework explains this and related puzzles.
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How emotion is conveyed by vocal similarity in music across cultures, and how the speech of a culture and its music are related. A summing up of the major points in the course follows.
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Additional demonstrations and commentaries by Ruby Froom on some of the musical issues considered in the course, as well as a glossary of terms and bibliography for references.
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Reviewed on Sep 21, 2016
This course has helped me to understand biological psychology of humans towards music. Based on this knowledge i am confident to create music which will seem good to the ears of humans.
Reviewed on Sep 16, 2016
This course was fairly interesting. The argument that the notes of our scale are linked to human vocalisation, not just in the West, but the whole world.
Reviewed on Jun 10, 2017
Great course, very informative for anyone who wishes to explore deeper aspects of music that have to do with biology and psychology.
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