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Music as Biology: What We Like to Hear and Why
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- Fee-based Certificate
- 6 Sequences
- Introductive Level
- Subtitles in Spanish
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Syllabus
- Week 1 - Course Introduction
Introduction to Music as Biology - Week 1 - Sound Signals, Sound Stimuli, and the Human Auditory System
An overview of the organization of the human auditory system, and how sound signals are transformed into sound stimuli. - Week 2 - The Perception of Sound Stimuli
An introduction to the sound qualities we perceive, and how and why these qualities differ from the information in sound signals. - Week 3 - Vocalization and Vocal Tones
A discussion of the nature of vocal sound signals, their biological importance and their role in understanding music. - Week 4 - Defining Music and Exploring Why We Like It
The tonal phenomena that need to be explained in any theory of music, and different approaches that have been take to provide answers. - Week 5 - Musical Scales
Why a small number of basic scales are used in music worldwide, and how a biological framework explains this and related puzzles. - Week 6 - Music, Emotion, and Cultural Differences
How emotion is conveyed by vocal similarity in music across cultures, and how the speech of a culture and its music are related. A summing up of the major points in the course follows. - Week 6 - Additional Resources
Additional demonstrations and commentaries by Ruby Froom on some of the musical issues considered in the course, as well as a glossary of terms and bibliography for references.
Prerequisite
None.
Instructors
Dale Purves
M.D.
Duke Institute for Brain Sciences
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