Music as Biology: The Tones We Like and Why

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.

• | Author: Dale Purves
• | Publisher: Harvard University Press
• | Publication Date: Feb 01, 2017
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• | Language: eng
• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-13: 9780674545151
• | ISBN-10: 067454515X