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.
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Music as Biology: What We Like to Hear and Why
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Prueba Coursera para negociosHabilidades que obtendrás
- Biology
- Music
- Evolution
- Neurobiology
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Programa - Qué aprenderás en este curso
Course Introduction
Sound Signals, Sound Stimuli, and the Human Auditory System
The Perception of Sound Stimuli
Vocalization and Vocal Tones
Defining Music and Exploring Why We Like It
Reseñas
- 5 stars57,27 %
- 4 stars24,84 %
- 3 stars12,42 %
- 2 stars3,48 %
- 1 star1,96 %
Principales reseñas sobre MUSIC AS BIOLOGY: WHAT WE LIKE TO HEAR AND WHY
Muy completo e interesante, didáctico y muy intuitivo, aprendí demasiado... definitivamente lo recomiendo para aquellos que apenas inician en el mundo de la música!
Good introductory course on science behind music. Solid and interesting content. Little dry. Pianist is excellent.
It was an incredible experience! Mr. Dale Purves's way of explaining the material is just wonderful! and goes into details which was really helpful!
The very dull voice of the teacher makes him sound as if he is bothered about teaching the course.
interesting info otherwise.
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