RE: [tuning] Music on the Mind

Dante Rosati wrote,

>Some interesting implications here:

>http://www.msnbc.com/news/433442.asp

Thanks, Dante, that was a nice reaffirmation. My favorite quote from the
article:

"Music has charms to soothe a savage breast"

"Paul H. Erlich" wrote:
>
> Dante Rosati wrote,
>
> >Some interesting implications here:
>
> >http://www.msnbc.com/news/433442.asp
>
> Thanks, Dante, that was a nice reaffirmation. My favorite quote from the
> article:
>
> "Music has charms to soothe a savage breast"

Heeh!

I like this:

"...There is something specific
about music and math.� That something
might be that music involves proportions,
ratios, sequences�all of which underlie mathematical reasoning.

Thoughts of the ancients too? (as to our recent thread).

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Yes! The implication is that the babies are reacting to the tester's notion of what is good
and bad! Any testing that results in such singular affirmation of western theory i find
suspect. Maybe a minor 2nd against perfect 4th, but a tritone, sorry won't buy it!
Newsweek which refused to run an Alan Rich piece on i believe it was Nixon in China to
make room for some rock review. (he quit over this BTW) is no expert or reliable source of
anything much on music relying on the topical and immediate. Birds spontaneously sing and
people spontaneously make music-said" as natural as breathing" among the native americans. Why
would you assume other wise ?
Rosati wrote:

> Some interesting implications here:
>

-- Kraig Grady
North American Embassy of Anaphoria island
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Kraig wrote,

>Yes! The implication is that the babies are reacting to the tester's notion
of what is good and bad! Any testing >that results in such singular
affirmation of western theory i find suspect. Maybe a minor 2nd against
perfect >4th, but a tritone, sorry won't buy it

Kraig, the experiments likely used normal harmonic timbres, so a tritone
would produce minor 2nds between two sets of the partials in the second
octave.

I think this is a stretch. i can find minor seconds in ant combination if i look for them. The
sound tells me otherwise.

"Paul H. Erlich" wrote:

> Kraig, the experiments likely used normal harmonic timbres, so a tritone
> would produce minor 2nds between two sets of the partials in the second
> octave.
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-- Kraig Grady
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www.anaphoria.com