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To: koan who wrote (41695)	6/2/2007 4:21:09 PM
From: LoneClone	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 78422

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

To: koan who wrote (41695)	6/3/2007 1:17:23 AM
From: jazz_lover	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 78422

O.T. Good question. My take on it is that music is a form of communication, and we humans love to communicate. Music is a universal language. Some music we find unappealing because we are unfamiliar with the dialect. I recently explained this to my young son, who stated some music I listen to is not music but is just noise because it doesn't carry a strong beat or involve vocals. I told him that if he heard someone speak an unfamiliar language such as German, would he say the same thing? It's not really language just because he doesn't understand it? Surely not. Thus we get closer to the root cause of conflict...a failure to communicate. Which is what I see all around me in the world today. Which is why I invest in gold. So now we're back on topic.