11-22-2017, 02:04 PM
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Snowflake
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Dystopia
Posts: 13,136
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Originally Posted by Undertoad
Music is mathematics. There is the obvious rhythm and time aspects, halves, quarters, eighths etc.
Then you find out that an octave is a doubling in frequency, and a fifth interval is 1.5x frequency, and your mind is blown. Notes are our subconscious appreciation of math.
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This book: This Is Your Brain on Music
Go read this book. Trust me on this.
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Levitin's fascination with the mystery of music and the study of why it affects us so deeply is at the heart of this book...
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...he discusses neurobiology, neuropsychology, cognitive psychology, empirical philosophy, Gestalt psychology, memory theory, categorization theory, neurochemistry, and exemplar theory in relation to music theory and history...
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There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there
it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your
expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever
gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track.
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