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.
Music as Biology: What We Like to Hear and Why
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Music as Biology: What We Like to Hear and Why
Duke University
Informações sobre o curso
4.2
354 classificações
Habilidades que você terá
BiologyMusicEvolutionNeurobiology
Programa - O que você aprenderá com este curso
Semana
1Course Introduction
Introduction to Music as Biology
1 vídeo (Total de 4 min), 1 leitura
1 vídeos
1 leituras
A Word About the Course10min
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.
4 vídeos (Total de 36 min), 2 leituras, 1 teste
4 videos
Sound Signals and Sound Stimuli5min
Tones versus Noise11min
Determining the Sources of Sound Stimuli9min
2 leituras
Module Resources10min
An Overview of the Human Auditory System10min
1 exercício prático
Sound Signals, Sound Stimuli, and the Human Auditory System20min
Semana
2The 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.
5 vídeos (Total de 45 min), 1 leitura, 1 teste
5 videos
Pitch and Frequency13min
Timbre and its Causes5min
Observation and Linguistics5min
Auditory Objects and Scenes5min
1 leituras
Module Resources10min
1 exercício prático
The Perception of Sound Stimuli20min
Semana
3Vocalization and Vocal Tones
A discussion of the nature of vocal sound signals, their biological importance and their role in understanding music.
5 vídeos (Total de 45 min), 1 leitura, 1 teste
5 videos
The Perception of Vocal Sound Signals9min
The Perception of Intensity (Loudness) in Empirical Terms10min
The Perception of Frequency (Pitch) in Empirical Terms4min
Relationship of Vocalization to Music7min
1 leituras
Module Resources10min
1 exercício prático
Vocalization and Vocal Tones20min
Semana
4Defining 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.
9 vídeos (Total de 72 min), 1 leitura, 1 teste
9 videos
Defining Music11min
The Chromatic Scale and Some More Musical Terminology6min
Consonance and Dissonance6min
Tonality vs. Atonality: Frequency of Consonant vs. Dissonant Intervals4min
Tension and Resolution5min
Cadences8min
Mathematical Explanations of Consonance5min
A Physical Explanation of Consonance7min
A Biological Explanation of Consonance16min
1 leituras
Module Resources10min
1 exercício prático
Defining Music and Exploring Why We Like It20min
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Melhores avaliações
por MM•Sep 22nd 2016
This course has helped me to understand biological psychology of humans towards music. Based on this knowledge i am confident to create music which will seem good to the ears of humans.
por GG•Jun 11th 2017
Great course, very informative for anyone who wishes to explore deeper aspects of music that have to do with biology and psychology.
Instrutores
Dale Purves
M.D.Duke Institute for Brain Sciences
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