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Music as Biology

Hardcover • 2017 • 1. edition

Music as Biology

By Dale Purves

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About the book

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.

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9780674545151

Publisher

Harvard University Press

Published year

2017

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1

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Music as Biology

Format

Hardcover

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