tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9617011.post6040780066514586742..comments2024-03-27T23:45:06.093+01:00Comments on Renewable Music: Atonal oder tonal?Daniel Wolfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09093101325234464791noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9617011.post-27257732905795671022013-09-18T15:26:02.301+02:002013-09-18T15:26:02.301+02:00"The phenomenon of sensory consonance is a re...<i>"The phenomenon of sensory consonance is a real physiological one (evolutionarily piggybacked with some likelihood on speech perception)"</i><br /><br />Dale Purves at Duke University has found good evidence that it is in the speech <i>production</i>, finding that the diatonic scale is represented cross-culturally in the formants of human vowel sounds. see <a href="http://www.purveslab.net/research/explanation/sound/scales.html" rel="nofollow">An Empirical Explanation: Musical Scales</a> for an intro to his research -- Schoenberg asserted "One day, milkmen will whistle my tunes like Puccini's" yet it is over a century later and approximately none do; there may be good solid physiological reasons for this, for what Joseph Schillinger meant by there being many things correct in the musical theory but which were not 'musical' to the ear.teledynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15387640373550962501noreply@blogger.com