: Dale Purves
: Music as Biology
: Harvard University Press
: 9780674972964
: 1
: CHF 30.30
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: Sonstiges
: English
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.