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To: koan who wrote (41695)6/2/2007 4:21:09 PM
From: LoneClone  Read Replies (3) of 78424
 
I used to do about 45 minutes of one of my introductory lectures on the origins of music and why we give it such meaning. But don't ask me to repeat it now.

And as to why we have certain tastes, the most convincing to me are the sociological explanations, particularly Pierre Bourdieu's research on cultural affiliations of taste, along with some of the research that came out of cultural studies about how we construct meanings around different forms of cultural expression, using them to signify different types of meaning.

Certainly there are structures in the human brain that respond universally to certain tones and musical intervals, but these can certainly be modified by experience and cultural indoctrination. If I can veer to the anecdotal...

I have a very good musical ear that allows me to sight read and sight sing, but through long exposure to many different types and styles of music I now have difficult distinguishing between atonal and tonal music, a situation I share with my musically adventurous friends.

So something that would have sounded sour or off to me when I was a kid just sounds different but not off to me these days. Even Harry's Partch's microtonal music sounds normal to me; the same with odd tunings.

LC
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